[Bug 987502] Re: libxml2-dev: /usr/bin/xml2-config isn't identical across all arch

2013-09-13 Thread Darko Lombardo
Hi Andrew. I do not think your issue is related to this bug at all. As a user you probably have no need for a libxml2-dev package, only libxml2. I posted notes in reference to this bug due to a deliberate request by the user (developer) for libxml2-dev:i386 on a 64-bit Ubuntu, which is not some

[Bug 987502] Re: libxml2-dev: /usr/bin/xml2-config isn't identical across all arch

2013-09-12 Thread Darko Lombardo
Hi Andrew. Generally, both versions of the library are needed if one needs multi architecture building option (e.g. x86_64 native build and i386 backsupport (cross)build for 32-bit installations). I am building my i386 and x86_64 application on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS using -m32 and -m64 gcc options.