lv2-plugins install path

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2014-01-27 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>

> Quoting Alessio Treglia (2014-01-27 13:22:27)
>

Hi Jonas,


> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > /usr/lib64 shouldn't be used on debian ...
> > > After some discussion with him he send me a patch ...
> > > Now all *.so files are installed this way:
> > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lv2/synthv1.lv2/synthv1.so
> > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lv2/synthv1.lv2/synthv1_ui.so
> >
> > That's formally correct for us, it's pointless to fix every single LV2
> > plugin just to make hosts "happier" though, we need this bug to be
> > solved at upstream.
> > I mean IMHO this is a matter of interface contracts as the LV2
> > specification currently does not handle multi arch at all, so I'd
> > suggest to file a bug here [1] before going with any solution.
>
> My proposal (see separate mail) fits with above in the sense that it
> treat normal builds as broken until step 4).
>
> Please note that multiarch is a Debian invention, so likely to not be
> supported upstream and not needed to be, if only we are careful to
> respect that by making support only *optional* - which is what I
> propose.


Multiarch is nowadays widespread in many other distributions:
debian and derivatives, redhat and derivatives, opensuse, arch linux
and probably others (just quick research correct me if I am wrong).
So maybe asking to be multiarch supported upstream is most straightforward.

best regards

mira
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