gcc-4.5-RH in F14

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jul 9 03:32:14 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 22:36 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:32:37PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 
> > I think it probably doesn't 'work', in the sense that you can't install
> > the f13 -devel i686 and x86-64 packages together, but in another sense
> > that's fine, as I don't think our multilib policy says you _will_ be
> > able to install -devel packages together and it's not a huge tragedy if
> > you can't. So that would certainly be an improvement. Just being able to
> > install the main lib package is the most important thing.
> >
> I remember a big push to make multilib -devel work many many Fedora releases
> ago.  Possibly pre-Core Extras merge.
> 
> If those files are exactly the same in both the x86 and x86_64 package they
> should be okay under multilib.  If they aren't exactly the same they should
> go in a path that either has the arch in the pathname or the bitedness
> (lib64 vs lib)
> 

This is accurate.

the files must be identical if they are not elf binaries.

-sv




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