On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 05:15:43PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-08-18 10:37 +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > > > I started working on multiarching ncurses, but half-way noticed that it was > > already done in git. The work in git looks fine, just a couple of minor > > details > > need fixing. > > > > 1) DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH comes with dpkg-dev 1.16, bump the build-depends > > Not necessary since debhelper 8.1.3 pulls that in already; and for > potential Squeeze backports that would need to be taken out. We could > also drop the dpkg-dev build dependency completely since 1.15.7 is older > than the one in stable. I guess all this doesn't matter much because > probably nobody is ever going to do a backport of ncurses anyway.
You are right, I missed that there is a dep via debhelper. > > 2) libncursesw5-devi and libncurses5-dev can be multiarch: same, and > > ncurses-bin > > multiarch: foreign > > The reason why I had not do this yet is that the output of > "ncurses5-config --libdir" and "ncurses5-config --libs" is not correct > for foreign architectures. But since the libraries are installed in the > default linker search path anyway, that might be irrelevant. Sigh. I think I need to propose something generic to solve the all too common foo-config and multiarch crosscompile. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
