Scott Ritchie wrote: > So, multiarch is going along well in Debian/Ubuntu, and by next distro > release Wine should be building as a proper multiarch package. Previous > hacks like ia32-libs will be dead for good. > > > A side effect of this change, however, is the current build daemons ONLY > have packages for one architecture. This means that, at build time, you > won't be able to pull in the 32-bit packages on a 64-bit build daemon. > > > From what I understand, this change is originating in Debian (and thus > propagating to Ubuntu). I believe the motivations are mostly ease of > management of the build daemons -- only by doing this, for instance, can > an entire architecture be properly isolated and self-contained. > > > This means for bi-arch Wine, we will need to either: > - Make Wine support building in pure 64-bit mode and then calling the > 32-bit subsystem from a separate binary > - Make a very persuasive case that Wine isn't the only package that > needs to have multiple architectures at build time > > > Hopefully I'm overestimating the amount of work involved, as this sort > of architecture modularity might be a "nice to have" in Wine anyway. > > If none of this is doable by next release, we'll just have a 32-bit only > Wine, which isn't really any worse than the situation now. http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64ForPackagers
bye michael