On Sat, 23 May 2015, Francois Gouget wrote: [...] > > Although Debian policy currently doesn't allow -dev packages with > > headers which vary across architectures to be Multi-Arch: same, > > There was a plan to make it possible to put headers in the > triplet-specific location and based on libgmp-dev this may have seen > fruition:
Chapter 9 of the Debian Policy Manual has more data on this: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html The requirement for C and C++ headers files to be accessible through the search path /usr/include/ is amended, permitting files to be accessible through the search path /usr/include/triplet where triplet is as above. [79] [79] This is necessary for architecture-dependant headers file to coexist in a multiarch setup. See also the MultiarchCross documentation, particularly the 'Toolchains', 'Multiarching -dev packages' and 'Header files' sections: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchCross Multiarch already goes most of the way by specifying new paths where libraries are to be found; while the MultiarchSpec lists library -dev packages as unresolved, the transition plan is already pretty specific on making binutils and gcc look into multiarch inlcude directories, which is only needed for -dev packages. The extra explicit changes are: moving arch-dependent include files into /usr/include/<triplet>. dealing with scripts and utilities. pkg-config files do not need to change for multiarch - they just move into /usr/lib/<triplet> In version 1.0.25+git20150425-1 libsane-dev's sane-config is also arch-specific. So the MultiarchCross documentation's 'Executables in -dev packages' will be relevant too. -- Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ The greatest programming project of all took six days; on the seventh day the programmer rested. We've been trying to debug the *&^%$#@ thing ever since. Moral: design before you implement. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
