Spilt libperl from perl
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Mon Apr 23 20:32:39 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:41 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >
> > That's only true if the world revolves around developing packages. If
> > I'm a software developer writing and testing software, it works quite
> > nicely. I have a checkout of anaconda, I run make and it builds for
> > x86_64. If I have a need to test something or see something on i386, I
> > just have to ensure that -m32 is in my CFLAGS/LDFLAGS and can use the
> > same environment. And then copy over the shared object into where I'm
> > testing or whatever happens to be needed for that case.
> >
> > And the above holds true for a *LOT* of software. If I'm using
> > something with pkg-config, I have to also set its appropriate
> > environment variable. And similarly pass the right args to configure
> > for autofoolery.
> >
>
> Have you actually tried this? I agree that if you've software with a simple
> straight forward makefile then it might work, and thus that it could work for
> software you develop yourself. But it doesn't hold true for a *LOT* of software.
Sounds like bugs in that software to me...
josh
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