ISA specific dependencies

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Tue Mar 18 20:06:10 CET 2014


Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

>> Something is rotten and frankly I don't wish to add overrides as it
>> falsifies the dependencies.
>
> This looks wrong regarding the checks. IMHO when a dependency is given (regardless
> if it is 32 and/or 64 bit) the package should be specified and no surplus dependency
> should be thrown.
>
> However, I could think of a useful test that the linked libraries between files of the
> same name in different ISA subdirs are the same or must be overridden if not. Wrong
> linkages are a problem when doing 32/64.
>
> @Maciej, @Yann: What do you think?

What's the wisdom offered by my dear colleagues? Sometime, in the middle
term, I'll override the dependencies if there is no other way. Till then
I'm devoting myself to other, cleaner, endeavours.
-- 
Peter


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