Bug#636605: Please add multiarch support to libsdl

[Sven Joachim]

On 2011-08-04 16:27 +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:

> The following patch adds multiarch support for libsdl1.2. It requires the following changes:
>
> - debian/control changes (Multi-Arch: same and debhelper reqirement update)
> - move libs to /usr/lib/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/
> - install a /usr/bin/sdl-config wrapper that calls /usr/lib/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/sdl-config
>
> last is needed to support crosscompiling (so that /usr/bin/sdl-config is same on all archs,
> allowing Multi-Arch: same setting for the -dev package).

There is a little problem with the latter, namely…

> @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +# Generic multiarch wrapper for sdl-config
> +# Copyright (c) 2011 Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at linaro.org>
> +
> +/usr/lib/`dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH`/sdl/sdl-config "$@"

…it requires dpkg-dev (1.16.0 or later due to DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) for
dpkg-architecture.

Cheers,
       Sven