Tom Lane wrote:
Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Actually the only reason that mysql-config is a binary and not a script
is that there doesn't seem to be any other good way for it to know which
word-width it's supposed to return results for. This is one of the main
problems with trying to do software builds in a multilib environment.
What is wrong with renaming the xxxxx-config binary to
xxxxx-config.%{arch} (or moving it to %{_libdir}) and writing a
platform independent shell script xxxxx-config that will call the
correct xxxxx-config.%{arch} file?
How is the platform independent shell script to know which arch-specific
file to call? (This is an actual question, not a rhetorical one.)
AFAIK there is nothing it can look at that isn't likely to do the Wrong
Thing from the perspective of someone trying to build software.
To be able to do so, in a perfect world, such a shell script would have
to receive and to process the CFLAGS being used in calls to gcc.
(c.f. -print-multi-directory, -print-multi-lib,
-print-multi-os-directory in gcc --help).
Ralf
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