On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 18:43 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > 2009/4/19 Björn Persson: > > I'm trying to learn how to build packages for Fedora. My first question is > > about multilib development packages. > > > > I know that compiled libraries can be installed in both 32-bit and 64-bit > > versions at the same time, but is this required for -devel packages as well? > > That is, is it normal to compile both 32-bit and 64-bit programs on the same > > host, so that one needs both libwhatever-devel.i386 and > > libwhatever-devel.x86_64, or is it permissible for the two versions of > > libwhatever-devel to conflict with each other? > > > > Björn Persson > > This is a dilemma we have in Fedora. I have no idea why someone would > want to keep the devel subpackages of the same package with different > archs installed. > > Even adding a %doc makes these devel subpackages conflict each other. > I do wonder what is the logic laying behind. It's required if you want to compile both x86_64 and i386 on an x86_64 machine. I do it all the time. (-m32 flag to gcc)
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