Re: API freeze release ... status so far.

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> writes: 
>
> > I think one should read "Architecture independant" as "if it's not an executable
> > and it isn't compiled for a specific architecture"
> > If what you're telling me is that there might be a .pc for a library available one
> > arch, and not for the other, I could argue that the same problem would happen if 2
> > versions of one application have different layouts under their
> > /usr/share/application dir (and different versions are available on the platforms),
> > or if a bonobo component is available on one platform and not the other
> > (/usr/share/oaf)
>
> The point is that you can have arch-specific compiler flags or the
> like in the .pc files. So you may need a different .pc file for each
> arch.
>
> /usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h is a similar example.


Fair enough, the FHS (the exerts I posted were from the 2.2 version, the 
latest one afaik) would need to be updated to take this cases into account.

Thanks for straightening this


> Havoc