Hi Jan, Jan Medlock wrote:
> What is the recommended way to detect the presence of multiarch in a > cross-platform build? [...] > Currently, there's an explicit check for Ubuntu 11.04 Thanks for raising this. Of course, multiarch in Debian is young so there is still a chance to make changes to improve this kind of use case before a release. As you hinted, other platforms may have other ways to solve the same problems. I would be very interested to hear about how the presence of multiarch affects sage's build, and maybe we can come up with a generic solution (like adding a new variable to getconf, things like that). After reading the bug log you linked to, it's still unclear to me where multiarch fits in (as not ld's change in defaults to --no-copy-dt-needed, say). For example: the best practice for installing a library for a long time has been to write to $prefix/lib by default and allow this to be overridden (for example to /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib/$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)) at build time. I don't think multiarch changes that. To give another example: if you want to see where gcc looks for libraries for some reason, there is "gcc -print-search-dirs". Looking forward to your thoughts, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110617015812.GA27902@elie
