On 2018-02-17 09:33 +0700, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 17.02.2018 03:06, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2016-12-15 21:28 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>>> Which use case of foreign architecture dependencies is handled by the
>>> existing readline multilib packages?
>>
>> I still have not received an answer to this question, could you please
>> elaborate?
>
> it's still the same reason as before: to build a 64bit gdb on 32bit
> architectures. Yes, I know that the gdb maintainer has removed the 64bit gdb
> package unfortunately,
To which you did not really object, BTW. At least I did not understand
"Did we stop building gdb64 packages for 32bit architectures?" in that
sense.
The original proposal in #775948, making gdb multiarch-coinstallable,
might still make sense. OTOH, on i386 installing gdb:amd64 is already
possible, and for other architectures there is also gdb-multiarch.
> but why make it even more difficult to build such a binary?
The reasons why I filed #848163, and the great complexity in the ncurses
packaging due to multilib. I know this is no problem for a guru like
you who likes complicated packages, but I am a mere mortal with limited
skills. :-(
Is there any problem building a 64-bit gdb on i386 after installing
libreadline-dev:amd64, libncurses5-dev:amd64 and possibly other useful
packages to give gdb more bells and whistles - the gdb64 package was
equivalent to gdb-minimal?
Cheers,
Sven
