Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:13:02PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> That is indeed the problem. But how would a wraper help? You still >> have to somehow tell the wraper if gcc will later be invoked with -m32 >> or -m64. > > Whatever build system you use, there must be some logic somewhere to > decide what arcitecture to build for, and what other settings that > architecture needs. This logic may be in the user (by explicitely > setting PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR and CFLAGS) or some script that decides that > "if we are running on x86_64 and we want to build for ix86 then we > should add -m32 to CFLAGS". This component should be extended to handle > pkg-config as well. (I'm carefully trying to avoid being > autoconf-centric here :-) > >> Only solutions I see sofar is to either pass the gnu tripple to >> pkgconfig, to have configure set some environment variable or to >> include some variable in all paths that gcc later fills in. > > Yes, the easiest solution is just to pass the target system tripple to > pkg-config. Support for this can be added to /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 > so autoconf-using packages can benefit from it automatically (after > re-running aclocal & autoconf, of course). > > An idea independent of pkg-config: do we have an utility that takes a > system tripple and outputs the gcc flags (-m32/-m64) needed for building > for that arch? That would be useful to verify that the value given for > --host= is consistent with the value of CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/FFLAGS.
dpkg-libinfo or dpkg-multiarch both implement that with different interfaces. Both have been tested but not uploaded to sid yet. The later is more flexible and I will probably upload it at some point. dpkg-multiarch takes the debian arch that we build debs for (e.g x86_64-linux-gnu for amd64) and the target arch the binary code is for (e.g. i486-linux-gnu for 32bit code on amd64) and then outputs CFLAGS, LIBDIR, ... appropriate for that specific combination in the same manner dpkg-architecture work. Both deb arch and code arch default to the arch from dpkg-architecture. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]