[Freeipa-devel] freeipa and Debian multiarch triplet

[Martin Kosek]

On 06/19/2014 10:18 AM, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> 
> 	Hi
> 
>   While porting the client code for current master I noticed that there
> are some hardcodings to use /usr/lib{,64} paths for various things. This
> is problematic for Debian and it's derivatives, since we use "proper
> multiarch(tm)" which means paths like
> /usr/lib/{i386-linux-gnu,x86_64-linux-gnu} and other GNU triplets. I'd
> need to force freeipa to build only on these two archs by setting FOO =
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu and FOO_64 = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu.
> 
> Ideas for solving it cleanly so that at least freeipa-client would be
> possible to build on other archs too? For the server at least 389 needs
> updates too, since it hardcodes paths the same way.

Apparently there were not many ideas on this topic. In case you have some idea
how we could fix the ipaplatform package so that is serves you (or other
platform consumers) better we are still open to changes - 4.0 is not released yet.

Thanks,
Martin