Bug#499411: gtk+2.0: Better support for ia32-libs

[Tony Houghton]

Package: gtk+2.0
Severity: wishlist


The ia32-libs-gtk package for amd64 is built by unpacking i386 packages
and moving the contents of /usr/lib to /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib etc etc
before repackaging them in an amd64 deb.  However, some components still
try to load libraries dynamically from /usr/lib at run-time so they
don't work correctly - such as theme engines and probably pixbuf
loaders.

The ia32-libs-gtk packager could recompile the packages with a different
libdir but this could cause them some difficulty making sure they're
built with the correct headers etc for ia32. I wondered whether it might
be easier to patch the gtk+2.0 package so that if it fails to load a
library from a libdir it then tries the corresponding directory in
/emul/ia32-linux (or whatever its target arch is).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash