Let's discuss this on debian-devel. Here is what I answered to bug 723358 about hwloc.
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 17 Sep 2013 13:01:32 +0200, a écrit : > YunQiang Su, le Tue 17 Sep 2013 18:38:26 +0800, a écrit : > > This package has one or more -L/usr/lib in its build system, > > Err, no, it doesn't. Please recheck your build log carefully. And > don't do Mass Bug Filling without extra care, which includes discussing > about it on debian-devel first! > > > which will make it ftbfs if there is libraries under /usr/lib, > > while is not the default architecture, mips* for example. > > > > On mips* systems, /usr/lib is defined as place to hold O32 > > libraries, and /usr/lib32 for N32, and /usr/lib64 is for N64. > > That's not necessarily a problem: a spurious -L/usr/lib does not hurt, > the linker will simply not take the binaries. It's only if -L/usr/lib > is required for proper linking that it would be a problem. But the > compiler already has that in its search path, so there is really no > problem. > > > Beside the way, on the multiarch system like Debian, user may install > > libraries under /usr/lib by hand. > > No, they are not supposed to be doing that. > > > The attachement is the buildlog of this package on mips64el platform. > > The build didn't even start... Samuel -- 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/20130917110507.ga29...@type.bordeaux.inria.fr
