On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 03:12:26PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:30:36AM +0800, YunQiang Su wrote:
> > This package has one or more -L/usr/lib in its build system,
> > which will make it ftbfs if there is libraries under /usr/lib
> > while is not the default architecture, mips* for example.                   
> >     
> Even more intersting, it
>  a) has a rpath on /usr/lib 
>  b) has -L/usr/lib/../lib  :)                                                 
>                              
> > 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 sounds like a mess. Why not propley use multiarch paths for
> multi-ABI stuff? I'd seriously hope those will repesent different archs?
The multiarch works well, this bug is about multilib.
MIPS* is very sad that it have to put multilib(o32) files to /usr/lib
instead of /usr/libo32
> 
> > Beside the way, on the multiarch system like Debian, user may install
> > libraries under /usr/lib by hand.
> 
> That's users on crack though, for that it's /usr/local and always was.
> 
> You also get into the same situation with  people overwriting packages' 
> /usr/lib
> (or even installing in /usr/local), so this argument is moot.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rene


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