Simon McVittie writes ("Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or
Jessie."):
> AIUI, it's for build systems that make decisions based on the
> "canonical" GNU architecture name of the build architecture (or,
> indirectly, the host architecture, since the default host architecture
> is "whatever the build architecture is"). For instance, "if this is
> Linux, do foo, else do bar"
Ah. I never do that. I actually test for the presence of the
features I care about.
> or "load plugins that are named
> libmyapp-*-${architecture}.${appropriate extension}". One common reason
> to need it is having a library for which you used libtool.
Glrgh. (apropos of libtool)
Ian.
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