Ken Moffat wrote: > So, at last the suggestions: > > 1. Would it be useful to add a general page about /usr/bin/*-config > to cblfs for multilib ? It could suggest that whenever a -config > program is installed, it will at worst do no harm to move it to -32 > and/or -64 as appropriate, and symlink it to multiarch_wrapper. (If > you only build it in one size, the symlink will prevet any configure > script of the other size (or other API, or whatever the correct name > for -m32|m64 is) from finding it. > This is already done for the most part, And if I've missed something, it needs to be changed. > If it is worth adding this, what should it be called ? '*-config' > doesn't seem a particularly useful name. > No idea there, Explanatory text has never been my strong point. > Many of the -config programs (and the fc- programs) are already > mentioned in appropriate packages in cblfs, but I've found some > others that maybe ought to be (haven't yet confirmed that they > all definitely mention /lib or /lib64 yet, e.g. xft-config --libs > from libXft doesn't). Maybe -config programs which don't explicitly > mention /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 should be explicitly mentioned as not > needing to be symlinked ot multiarch_wrapper ? > I prefer to just wrap everything I see, Will definitely make things easier down the line. > People will always add packages to their systems that aren't in > cblfs, and I for one wasn't really aware that -config programs might > be contributing to difficulties in building later packages. > Neither was I till I started building multilib. > 2. If it is worth adding a general page about this, should it mention > that temporarily removing a symlink to multiarch_wrapper immediately > before (re-)running make install may be helpful ? > I've only run into a problem with this when installing APR and APR-Util. In which case I added a note on the page in CBLFS.
I like the short and sweet version :) _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org
