Why a multilib wrapper for non-multilib architectures?!

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Jun 13 20:05:44 UTC 2009


Robert Scheck wrote:
> can somebody please explain me, why we've multilib wrappers for packages
> at non-multilib architectures such as arm, alpha, ia64 and sh?

Probably because it's less maintenance work in the specfile to just always
add the wrapper. (On the other hand, it means extra work (adding an #ifdef)
when adding a secondary arch.)

        Kevin Kofler




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