+++ Steve Langasek [2011-01-31 12:18 -0800]: > > So, the questions is - which of these is the correct fix: > > 1) make dpkg-cross copy over symlinks even when they point into > > /usr/share > > 2) make tcl8.5 put tclConfig.sh in /usr/lib/tcl8.5 instead of > > /usr/share/tcltk/tcl8.5 > > 3) make sqlite (and similar packages) look in /usr/share/tcltk/tcl8.5 > > instead of /usr/lib/tcl8.5 when building > > 1+2: dpkg-cross should also copy over symlinks that point to /usr/share. > When such symlinks exist, it's almost invariably because *something is > looking for the information in that location*. So as a general policy, they > should also be made available in a crossed package.
But if something is looking for arch-independent stuff in /lib then in general that's wrong, and I'm not aware of any examples of correctly-packaged packages that need this. Any arch-independent files will be supplied by an arch all package that the build should depend on if needed. dpkg-cross has gone for 10 years without needing symlinks pointing into /usr/share, so I'm reluctant to add them without some evidence that it's actually correct. Its policy of only crossing arch-dependent files is the right one, I believe. (It does allow symlinks within /usr/src which presumably has/had a good reason.) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110201005222.gm4...@dream.aleph1.co.uk
