Re: non-flattened filesystem layout

[Wolfgang Lux]

> Am 30.06.2016 um 01:23 schrieb Stefan Bidigaray <address@hidden>:
> 
> LIBRARY COMBOS
> I don't understand why these are still needed. Can't the library combo be 
> inferred from the architecture triplet, nowadays?

I'm still using both apple-apple-apple and gnu-gnu-gnu on OS X (the latter 
requires a few manual tweaks to get it working though). So I guess my answer to 
your question is no.

> Maybe this was something that made sense when GNUstep first started, as there 
> were so many completing ObjC libraries? Currently, I'm not entirely convinced 
> this makes sense. For example, if you are deploying for apple-apple-apple 
> your arch-triplet is x86_64-apple-darwin (or is it x86_64-apple-apple? I 
> don't know), right? Is anything besides gnu-gnu-gnu and apple-apple-apple 
> still around? As far as I can tell, adding this directory makes our 
> non-flattened system incompatible with the Debian multi-arch system. And 
> honestly, I'm not sure it is still buying us anything of value. It should be 
> up to the person compiling GNUstep to ensure that they are not mixing the 
> GNUstep libraries and something else that might be compatible. I mean, this 
> person should know.

Wolfgang