Re: libtool problem on system with 32 and 64 bit libraries

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 12 May 2009, Markus Elfring wrote:
> I am also interested to convert the wording from the specification into
> something where specific default settings can be processed automatically.
> http://pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#LIBLTQUALGTALTERNATEFORMATESSENTIAL
>
> Will it be worth to invite more software developers to proposals and
> participation in the required modelling of data structures and programming
> interfaces?

It does not seem likely that anything as exotic as data structures and 
programming interfaces would be required.  What is necessary is to get 
the right people interested.  Once the specification is written, and 
the various popular operating systems start to come with the file, 
then libtool could start to pay attention to it.  Things like this 
typically take years to accomplish.

The FHS was relatively easy to work out since it was based on 
long-standing conventions established by SunOS in the late '80s and 
early '90s.  A multi-lib architecture description format would be 
entirely new so someone would need to invent it and propose it to the 
right group of people to propel it to standard status.  An alternative 
is to follow the approach used by pkg-config and simply show up with 
the right tool for the job.

Bob
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