Multi-architecture problem

Multi-architecture problem

Posted Apr 9, 2004 14:29 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Multi-architecture problem by hazelsct
Parent article: The User-Accessible Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

The system I use to install software that the admins at work don't want to manage (of which there is plenty) is to stow things into a tree .packages/{config-guess-triplet}/ and .packages/all, putting arch-dependent stuff into the former, and arch-independent stuff into the latter. Both are then stowed into place (although there are extra complexities with LD_LIBRARY_PATH for shared libraries).

What can I say, it works, although a number of programs that don't implement the GNU Coding Standards properly (or at all) needed build-system patches to properly separate arch-dependent and -independent install trees.

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