FOSDEM: Multiarch on Debian and Ubuntu

Posted Feb 23, 2012 19:31 UTC (Thu) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742)
In reply to: FOSDEM: Multiarch on Debian and Ubuntu by wookey
Parent article: FOSDEM: Multiarch on Debian and Ubuntu

Ah, ok. Section 1) is the distro POV of cross compiling. That's a good thing.
And there are really no problems with overlapping files (headers) ?

What do you mean with "Files have a path - use it" ?

Regarding 3) I'm really not up-to-date with that.
The last time I used scratchbox, I had to actually log in to it to do something. Has this changed ?

Alex

FOSDEM: Multiarch on Debian and Ubuntu

Posted Feb 28, 2012 18:10 UTC (Tue) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]

What do you mean with "Files have a path - use it" ?

I imagine he means that files you're building and installing go in a location that won't differ from the deployed location on a foreign system. So whereas you'd previously have to make foreign libraries targeted for /usr/lib but which can't be installed there because your host's libraries already reside there - problematic if your tools expect those foreign libraries to be there when building other things which depend on those libraries - you can now give the tools a canonical path for each architecture and the host and foreign libraries won't conflict with each other.