[Pkg-alsa-devel] Re: bi-arch patches

[Matthias Klose]

Thomas Hood writes:
> Matthias Klose wrote:
> > Peter 'p2' De Schrijver writes:
> >> Because dpkg doesn't want to install a package twice for a different
> >> arch ?
> > 
> > did you even look at the patch? Doesn't seem so :-/
> 
> 
> There seems to be a misunderstanding here, which is my fault.  Peter has
> volunteered to join the Debian ALSA packaging team.  So far he doesn't have
> much experience with it.  None of us has experience with multi-arch packaging
> (SFAIK), but I asked Peter to consider the request for bi-arch support in
> alsa-lib because he has access to a wider range of hardware platforms than
> other members of the team.  Please forgive us if we need a bit of education
> as concerns bi/multi-arch support.

there's no multiarch support yet. biarch lets you build 32/64 bit code
for the "corresponding" platform, using the -m32/-m64 switch in the
compiler. to build the runtime library for java (libgcj) the libasound
library is needed for biarch. that can make sense, if shipping
applications for i.e. amd64 is needed, which are not yet 64bit clean,
i.e. OpenOffice.org.

  Matthias