Michael Tsang <mikl...@gmail.com> writes: > I have a recommendation for 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems: > > Now, some libraries are available on 64-bit systems as lib32* but these are > very few. To improve this situation, I think that we can organise the library > packages as follows: > > For a library with soname libfoo.so.1, we can make the following packages: > libfoo1 - /usr/lib/libfoo.so.1 > lib32foo1 - /usr/lib32/libfoo.so.1
That would be lib32, lib64, libn32, libo32, lib32el, lib32eb, libn32el, libn32eb, lib64el, lib64eb, ... Need I go on? Also note that you need lib32foo1 on ia64 but you can not compile one. There is no multilib or cross-compiler for i386 on ia64 in Debian. > libfoo-dev - /usr/lib32/libfoo.so /usr/lib/libfoo.so /usr/include/foo.h > libfoo-dev depends on libfoo1 | lib32foo1 (if one of them aren't > installed, left the .so link as a dead link) Which would mean that tons of users would end up with broken symlinks and sources would fail to compile. apt-get build-dep would not work anymore and so on. Verry bad idea. No, you need libfoo-dev and lib32foo-dev and all the other names from above. > libfoo-shared - architecture-independent files of libfoo (excluding > development files) > > This should be implemented as a build template to make all library packages > use this organisation scheme. I think this should be implemented after the > release of Squeeze. > -- > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Multiarch solves this much better and includes cross-compile support in this while also avoiding the many multiple of compiles of the same lib. Also ia32-apt-get solved this issue nicely for the time till true multiarch will finally be available. You can pick pretty much any library and "apt-get install ia32-libfoo" or install 32bit debs directly and apt will resolve the depends just fine. The parts that possibly break in ia32-apt-get are the parts packages must fix to be multiarch compliant. Even if dpkg/apt don't support multiarch then ia32-apt-get could install multiarch package reliably under the prefixed name. But 99% of use cases work just fine already. And don't forget there is a Google summer of code project to multiarchify apt. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874ogklmhg....@frosties.localdomain