On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:35:40AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 05/24/2011 10:26 AM, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:
> >Progress:

> >* Some trouble building the SPEC2k tools in the new multiarch world in
> >natty. Perl refuses to link libm and a number of other things
> >also end up failing . Appears to be a real pain with the new multiarch
> >world and SPEC2k's curious build system for its' tools . Will fall back
> >to an older chroot and get the tools built natively.

> At least this one isn't specific to spec2k, but is perl itself
> (having library tests looking into specific locations).

> I assume you are not allowed to patch the build system to work
> around these. So maybe instead of falling back to an older release,
> maybe create a multiarch-compat package having symlinks for all
> these moved files in the old places? Yes, it's a hack, and maybe
> such a package would only live in a PPA.

It would certainly be a hack; the set of libraries you would be providing
compat symlinks for is arbitrary, and you can't just symlink the directories
together.  I think PPA-only would, sadly, be the best approach.

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