Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 18:05 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:47:59 -0700, Adam wrote:
Of course, that turns the larger question into 'why do we put i686
-devel packages in the x86-64 repo, not just the lib packages',
Because not all files in -devel packages cover multiple target
platforms. Example: You could not build for i686 with headers that
are specific to x86_64, and you would also need the .so symlinks for
libraries in the appropriate libdir.
Well, that's only valid if we actually do anything to ensure multilib
compilation actually *works*, right now all we enforce is that the
packages don't conflict (which isn't the same thing at all).
Well... at $DAYJOB we *depend* on being able to compile 32-bit on 64-bit
for at least a couple products. And not just on Red Hat (and in my case,
Fedora), but also on Solaris, HP-UX, Darwin and AIX, all of which
support this just fine. (Yes, "all" includes Fedora/RH, at least for the
admittedly limited set of libs we use.)
That said, I'm not asking for it to be actually tested in Fedora, just
that if it breaks and I complain, the reply won't be "we don't care
because that is not supported and therefore it will not be fixed". IOW I
am fine with the current status quo, but I don't want to see multilib
dropped (not even sure it can be due to wine) or the policy otherwise
become explicitly hostile toward multilib compilation.
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