On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Overall, I would therefore prefer option 1 (not the option I expected to > prefer when I started analysing this!), because as far as I can see it > will unblock cross-building for both packages that need /usr/bin/libtool > and those that don't, without requiring any changes to those packages, > and it won't affect native building either way. > > Reasoning about multiarch can be hard work and I'm running low on > coffee. Would anyone like to pick holes in this analysis? > > Kurt, if I've persuaded you that option 1 is best, I'd be happy to run a > test cross-build against some reasonable subset of packages to see how > it performs, especially if anyone can think of an example package that's > wedded to /usr/bin/libtool. I think it's clear that this option would > have no effect on native builds and doesn't require extensive testing > there.
Option 1 wasn't my prefered option either, but it's probably the best way forward. Kurt -- 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/20140109214233.ga10...@roeckx.be
