On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 05:06:03AM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:02:04PM +0800, Sphinx Jiang wrote: > >> I refreshed this patch with 2.19-1. > >> > >> Tested on mips64el device, build successfully. > >> > >> > >> Sphinx > > > > > > I have just merged the non-controversial parts, that is everything but > > multlib. I am still opposed to having the o32 libraries in /lib and I am > > waiting for arguments about why it can't be for example in /libo32. > > > > Anyway I do wonder if we want multilib support at all on a new port, we > > now have multiarch to address this, so one can just install the > > libc6:mips on a mipsn32 or mips64 system, or libc6:mipsel on a > > mipsn32el or mips64el system to get o32 support. > > > > Multilib is still nice-to-have, so that we don't miss anything might > be useful for users, and related code/configuration does not change > from time to time so there should be maintainability burdens.
With my glibc maintainer hat, multilib is a huge pain to maintain and doesn't play well with multiarch, so I would be more than happy to not have it for a new architecture. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
