[PATCH] Get library installation path for target architecture

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Fri Mar 24 11:41:43 PST 2006


On Friday 24 March 2006 14:37, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:48 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:30, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > The situation I'm actually wondering about is a cross-compile where
> > > during the build the libraries live
> > > at /opt/totally/ludicrous/deep/path/to/cross/compiler and then on the
> > > target system they live in "/lib".  Will that do the right thing?
> >
> > if you were to take a non-multilib cross-compiler (say targeting amd64)
> > and deploy it on a multilib host (say amd64 with x86 compat), then
> > chances are it'd be in the wrong dir
>
> So if you use a cross-compiler that doesn't match the host you're deploying
> on, you have a problem.
>
> This is news?

there is absolutely nothing wrong with the scenario i stated above ... it is 
perfectly valid to have a multilib host and to have a non-mulitlib 
cross-compiler help it out on another machine

it's not like we're talking ABI incompat between say soft and hard float 
systems
-mike


More information about the busybox mailing list