Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Multi-archifying Octave

[Sébastien Villemot]

"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 29-Feb-2012, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>
> | This should indeed be enough for Octave core.
> | 
> | But, as already noted by Thomas Weber, this does not address the issue
> | for add-on packages, because pkg.m hardcodes the arch-specific paths
> | (see the getarch() function there).
>
> I'm not sure what is best for that.  Do you have any suggestions?
> What change are you using for Debian?

The only change that we made is that at configure time we give
--libdir=/usr/lib/<triplet> (where <triplet> is x86_64-linux-gnu on my
system) instead of --libdir=/usr/lib previously. No more. Debian is
progressively making this change in all its packages, since multi-arch
is a release goal for the next version of Debian [1].

The only annoyance in the case of Octave is that there are now two
triplets in the path of most arch-specific files, and in addition these
triplets are different (Debian use slightly different triplets than
GNU's). But we have decided to live with that for now. Functionally it
should not a problem, since changing --libdir is supported by
Octave. And removing the extra triplet would imply a substantial patch
to pkg.m, which I personally consider--as you do--as an undesirable
thing.

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/MultiArch

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