Re: Cross-platform detection of multiarch

2011-07-09 Thread Matthias Klose
On 06/17/2011 10:57 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Jan Medlock wrote: > >> Thanks for sending me down the right path. It looks like I should >> just patch my local versions until Sage upgrades to Python 2.7. (And >> even then, it'll require dpkg-dev to compile.) And multiarch was not >> really in

Re: Cross-platform detection of multiarch

2011-06-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jan Medlock wrote: > Thanks for sending me down the right path. It looks like I should > just patch my local versions until Sage upgrades to Python 2.7. (And > even then, it'll require dpkg-dev to compile.) And multiarch was not > really involved... On the contrary, it has everything to do wit

Re: Cross-platform detection of multiarch

2011-06-16 Thread Jan Medlock
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> 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). > > Ah, stupid me: here's a link so others can start where I left off. > > http://gr

Re: Cross-platform detection of multiarch

2011-06-16 Thread Jan Medlock
On 17 June 2011 10:002, Brian May wrote: > On 17 June 2011 09:28, Jan Medlock > wrote: >> I though about using dpkg-architecture. Another way would be >> preferred since dpkg-dev, the package containing dpkg-architecture, >> might not be installed. > > Is that likely? > > dpkg-dev is required

Re: Cross-platform detection of multiarch

2011-06-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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). Ah, stupid me: here's a link so others can start where I left off. http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg

Re: Cross-platform detection of multiarch

2011-06-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
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

Re: Cross-platform detection of multiarch

2011-06-16 Thread Brian May
On 17 June 2011 09:28, Jan Medlock wrote: > I though about using dpkg-architecture.  Another way would be > preferred since dpkg-dev, the package containing dpkg-architecture, > might not be installed. Is that likely? dpkg-dev is required by build-essential and contains a number of important pro