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Debian multiarch supportDebian multiarch supportPosted May 18, 2006 8:07 UTC (Thu) by wookey (subscriber, #5501)Parent article: Debian multiarch support
Multiarch actually has wider use case than the obvious one of letting amd64 systems run both 64 and 32 bit binaries/libs. It also helps with cross-compilation issues, by having a standard place to install non-native libs (of multiple types) and a packagemanager that can cope with this. dpkg-cross currently provides this functiponality by re-writing paths in standard packages to make them cross-installable. Multiarch should make that aspect of dpkg-cross redundant.
I think it can also help with cross-building schemes which use emulation to run target binaries at build-time, but I need to think about it a bit more first.
So embedded/cross-building people should be keen to see multiarch happen, even if they don't care at all about amd64 64/32 mixed installations.
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