On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:01:17PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 04:18:38PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> > I don't see a need to have the perl:i386 interpreter installed on amd64 > > in order to build third party i386 perl modules, the amd64 interpreter > > should be fine, just as it is when cross building third party armel perl > > modules. > > But you need the foreign-architecture libperl installable, for the perl > modules to be linked against. I don't think you do. The modules aren't linked against libperl, it's the other way around: libperl loads them at run time with dlopen(3). They are effectively plugins in a private directory. Obviously a few header files specific to the target architecture are needed, but that should be enough AFAICS. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- 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/20130419142641.GA4236@madeleine.local.invalid
