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