Re: [gentoo-dev] [PMS] new dep list (useful just for cross stuff)

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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.
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