Bug#914097: libomp5-7: not multiarch compatible

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello,

Le 19/11/2018 à 12:40, Giacomo Mulas a écrit :
> Package: libomp5-7
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I have a number of amd64 machines on which I have perfectly working
> multiarch installations, namely main distro amd64, run time libraries in
> i386 versions as well, a bunch of i386 applications. The libomp5-7
> packages, both amd64 and i386 versions, were pulled in as dependencies by
> the non-free libmkl packages (but that's not really relevant).
> Unfortunately, since libomp5-7 installs the actual libs under the directory
> /usr/lib/llvm-7/lib, both amd64 and i386 versions try to install their
> respective different versions of the library with exactly the same file name.
> Would it be complicated to install just the runtime libraries under the
> standard multiarch-compatible /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu directories, so that they can be both simultaneously
> installed without conflicts? This would be desirable for any runtime library,
> and in particular one which is likely to be pulled in by anything compiled by
> llvm. I will happily provide help with this, if needed and requested.
I probably won't spend time on this anytime soon, so yeah, would be great if you could try to provide a patch. :)

Thanks
S