On 1/12/07, Jack Howarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>    I'm still unclear how we can leverage the architecture Shlibs
> field for the multilib build of the gcc42 package. The standard
> multilib installation for gcc is to have the shared libs installed
> for the default architecture (32-bit for Darwin) in lib/gcc4.2/lib
> and the secondary multilib (64-bit) libraries in a ppc64 or
> x64_64 subdirectory (at least I am assuming that Macintel uses
> the x64_64 subdirectory name).
>    The problem as I see it is that we need to expand the explicit
> list of shared libs to include the 64-bit ones in either ppc64
> or x64_64 subdirectories. This would require some mechanism to
> dynamically change the pathname in the Shlibs entries or some
> case mechanism that would allow a different list to be used
> for each architecture.
>               Jack
>

Now, as I understand it, the Shlibs: field isn't actually used yet, so
maybe it is still possible to do this, eg. a Shlibs64 field for 64-bit
libs.

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
(akh)
Fink Documenter (still)

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