On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Eric Pouech <eric.pou...@orange.fr> wrote: >> This is because you _cannot_ install the 32-bit -dev packages onto >> 12.04. It's not just symlinks that are missing, many of the header >> files are different between the arches. > I'm not sure this is a generic rule, and if it were, then exclusion > between i386 and x86_64 should be defined on most dev packages, and > it's not the case > also note, that in some cases, arch specific headers are moved to arch > dependent directories (e.g. jpeg, glib...), which should also parallel > install of multi-arch libs > in any case, the job by ubuntu folks in 12.04 done is crappy, to say the least > >> Just do the chroot. You will save yourself so much grief and it will >> actually work. > if the ubuntu folks keep this state of mind, then they'll continue to sink > the best solution is then to pick up another distro > A+
+1. One of the reasons I stopped contributing to Wine is that it became too hard to set up 32 bit dev libraries on a 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10 system with its broken multiarch. I was hoping it would be fixed in 12.04, but if it's so broken now that we have to use a chroot, then I might as well use FreeBSD where chroot has always been the only way. Damjan Jovanovic
