Richard, On Friday, June 3, 2016, Richard Frith-Macdonald < richard.frith-macdon...@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm really pleased that Eric Heintzman (taking over as the only active > Debian maintainer for GNUstep) has recently been working hard to update > Debian packages to the latest releases (he's done make and base, and is > currently working on gui/back). > > It seems to me that we should help him as much as possible, and in light > of the fact that Debian adopted a system for multi-architecture > installation a few years ago (not the GNUstep one ... but not all that > dissimilar), I'd like to change our multi-architecture support to match. > IMO adopting their scheme, as well as aiding packaging, would actually > simplify the layout a little. > > What i'm thinking of is: > > When building non-flattened, the subdirectory name for libraries/binaries > would be changed for Debian compatibility (and simplicity) to use a > directory > whose name is of the form architecture/library-combo rather than nested > directories of the form cpu/os-abi/library-combo. > The architecture name format is a sanitised triplet cpu-os-abi (where > previously we had cpu/os-abi). > > When building non-flattened, header files would be installed in an > architecture and library-combo dependent subdirectory in the same way that > binary libraries > are installed. This removes an inconsistency and makes sense with Debian > multi-arch support which puts headers in an architecture specific > subdirectory. > > Architecture specific resource files would similarly be installed in the > modified directory hierarchy. > > Obviously this would take significant changes to gnustep-make, as well as > modifications in gnustep-base to look things up in the right place. Anyone > building non-flattened with the existing layout would of course need to do > a clean install after the change, but I don't think that would much bother > the kind of people who use the multi-arch layout anyway. > > Comments? No objections. > _______________________________________________ > Gnustep-dev mailing list > Gnustep-dev@gnu.org <javascript:;> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev > -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com http://ind.ie/phoenix/
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