On 07/31/2012 10:06 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Michael Wild <them...@gmail.com>, 2012-07-25, 11:50: >>>> How can I reliably (from a user-program) determine the >>>> multiarch-triplet/quadlet without depending on dpkg-dev? I found >>>> some talk of a lsb_architecture utility, but so far have found no >>>> trace of it... >>> >>> # gcc -print-multiarch >>> x86_64-linux-gnu >>> >> That's definitely better, but still not optimal since I don't want to >> require gcc either ;-) > > Not only suboptimal, but most likely also wrong. :) > > The whole idea of multi-arch is that you can have packages of different > architectures installed on a single system. So there's no single > "DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH" you could query at run-time. > > Perhaps if you explained what exactly you're trying to do, I could give > you a better answer. :) > > > p.s. Not subscribed. >
Well, I have a launcher script in python that launches private executables in /usr/lib/foo/bin/. When porting to multi-arch I figured I should put the private executables into /usrl/lib/<arch>/foo/bin, but then realised that this is probably the wrong thing to do ;-) Thanks for your help, though! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5017a211.3000...@gmail.com
