multiarch libsdl2-dev package?

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hello,

2017-08-05 12:15 GMT+02:00 Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg at debian.org>:
> Since we have already ld.so.conf with multiarch directories, I don't really
> see the need to have that -L${triplet} stuff

Yeah, it's probably not useful in our case.


>>In principle I am fine with this, but I'd like to know the plans about
>>upstreaming this change or asking them for a suitable alternative, so
>>we do not have to carry the patch over forever.
>
> I wondered the same while writing the patch, but I preferred to discuss in
>
> mail list before putting upstream in the loop (I did that now)
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-sdl/packages/libsdl2.git/commit/?id=d461026ee1fcbc930d51c6ce51d343ef9ef7fcc2
>
> Sam, having different libdir values breaks our multiarch package, do you have any issue in dropping the above parts?
>
> I think there is no point in adding -Llibdir, because the distro-provided libraries should be giving already the correct path.

I suppose that it's necessary for scenarios in which the user compiles
in a non-system-wide distro, or in places like /opt.  But if it there
is a way to make it optional for our use-case and not to have to carry
the patch, it would be great.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>