On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:12:02 Olivier Crête wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-29-06 at 09:30 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > > There are various problems that need to be addressed for cross
> > > development and (especially) multilib/abi. One of the other ones that
> > > you didn't mention is some kind of subpackage support. For example when
> > > one installs 32 bit gtk+ to use binary firefox on an 64bit system it
> > > can share the headers and docs etc. with the 64 bit version. Removing
> > > either of them must however still preserve those files.
> >
> > A quick and dirty way implies that:
> > - only the "main" abi can install stuff /usr/
>
> The secondary need to be able to install into their /usr/${libdir} ..
> its actually the only place where stuff from the non-main abis should be
> imho.If one requires synchronized versions, there should in 99% of the cases not be any issue with header files and documentation. It will be equal, so can be shared. It might indeed be an option to require the "main" abi to be always present. Paul ps. for include headers it is rather straightforward to make forwarding headers with architecture dependent redirects (using the architecture defines) in case the headers are not arch independent. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
