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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The gx86 multilib project -- masterplan
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:14:55
Message-Id: CAEdQ38Fb5dkfvyrZ+ST3FNjmCTb2_n-EGD5=OgdjMNqayW8zsQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] The gx86 multilib project -- masterplan by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > 5. Solutions to specific problems
3 > ---------------------------------
4 >
5 > 1. x11-proto packages
6 >
7 > Those packages install headers to /usr/include and pkg-config files
8 > to /usr/lib64. This supposedly means that the headers could be
9 > ABI-specific; however, so far I haven't seen a single difference.
10 >
11 > Possible solutions:
12 >
13 > a) check the headers by hand, move pkg-config files to /usr/share,
14 >
15 > b) make the proto packages multilib. This will cause identical .pc
16 > files to be installed to lib32 & lib64 but will also enable eclass
17 > checks for header consistency.
18
19 See http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2012-September/033715.html
20
21 In short, there seem to be a couple cases of platform-dependent
22 substitutions in headers, but for the most part they're platform
23 independent.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] The gx86 multilib project -- masterplan "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>