On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:17, you wrote: > At Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:26:17 +0200, > > Gerhard Tonn wrote: > > I have made some changes to dpkg and debhelper in order to support > > /lib64 and /usr/lib64 locations on 64 bit platforms. You find the patches > > at people.debian.org/~gt/lib64 along with patches for a bunch of other > > packages using the dpkg and debhelper extensions. Some of the patches > > have been used already by Arnd Bergmann for the x86-64 port. Any feedback > > is welcome. > > Excellent. > > > Assumptions: > > ------------ > > Development packages for 32 and 64 bit platforms are not installable > > concurrently. > > I don't still know about it, but > > * Is this assumption practical? > * Should development packages be capable to handle both 32/64 bit at > the same? > * Are there any example development packages which need to split > between for 32 and for 64 bit? >
The assumption simplifies the lib64 support at least. If both 32 and 64 bit development packages are needed concurrently, we could add the *.so link of the 32 bit package to the 64 bit package instead. The dependencies have to be adapted accordingly. Regards, Gerhard
