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On 2/25/21 9:53 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> Package: binutils-dev
> Version: 2.35.2-2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I'm trying to cross build some code that uses libbfd (not for Debian).
> However, I can't install binutils-dev:${foreign-arch} because is depends
> on binutils.
>
> In #842439, all libraries previously provided by binutils have been
> moved to the (then new) libbinutils binary package. At that time,
> binutils-dev was changed to depend on both binutils and libbinutils.
> However, that dependency on binutils is no longer needed since nothing
> in binutils-dev really uses what's left in binutils itself (basically
> just the programs).
>
> Beyond dropping that dependency, adding `Multi-Arch: same` makes a
> foreign binutils-dev co-installable with a native one.
M-A: same doesn't work:
- bfd.h is architecture specific
- binutils-dev stores the test results from the
testsuite in a common place.
I didn't check what would break when moving the header files to the MA include
dir.
Please base patches on the binutils package from experimental.
Matthias
