On 5/21/06, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For multiarch this will be an inconvenience though as people might want to install both 32bit and 64bit of a -dev package. For such small scripts spliting them into extra packages seems wrong but then you have to use alternatives or similar to avoid conflicts.
Hmm, if a program to be compiled requires libfoo and libbar, and the user has installed libfoo32-dev and libbar64-dev, where is the error going to be picked up? Are the -dev package actually architecture sensetive? I'd suggest pkgconfig could be used to fix this, except that the --libs produces too much rubbish to be truly useful (see Bug#340904). But if it worked correctly, you could add a --arch flags there to ensure you get the right version. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/
