On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 12:25:17PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > > Indeed, the GAP patch debian/patches/program-path adds > > /usr/share/gap/pkg/guava/bin/ to this list. > > > > > However only the last dir[ectory] may work on muti-architecture boxes. > > > Here we would need a "/usr/share/gap/pkg/guava/bin/<arch-triplet> between > > > the two current ones: > > > can gap support this ? > > > > GAP does not have the notion of the Debian triplet, so it is difficult to > > write a patch > > to add /usr/share/gap/pkg/guava/bin/$(DEBIAN_TRIPLET)/ > > I guess that a patch can be written to do so.
This probably requires changing the C code to define a new GAPInfo.DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH field. Do you have a better idea ? > > There is a single /usr/bin for all archs, so in particular a single > > /usr/bin/gap, > > so I do not see why we need to support several /usr/share/gap/pkg/guava/bin, > > especially since mismatched gap-core and gap-guava-bin should work. > > Along this reasonning, > /usr/share/gap/pkg/guava/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-default64-kv8/ has no use. Indeed. gap only need to support it for compatibility with non-debian-packaged gap packages, that uses this kind of directory name. > Please let me fix this guava issue by the week-end. OK, thanks! Bill.
