multilib fun - devel packages

[Joe Orton]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:39:47PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> There are varying solutions that can be done, depending
> on the sorts of conflicts:
> 
> 1) Old-style <library>-config scripts for setting CFLAGS and
>    LDFLAGS. Example: libst-config
>    
>    Can be a) ported to pkg-config b) genericized to have a
>    single script for all arches.

At least for some of my packages it's not possible to simply remove the 
*-config scripts, they are an essential part of the build 
infrastructure.

I don't see how (b) is possible.  How do I tell a foo-config script 
whether it's doing an -m32 or an -m64 build?

> 2) Wordsize specific #defines and similar in a header file.

Not possible without massive deviation from upstream.

joe