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libtool & MULTILIB


From: Steve Ellcey
Subject: libtool & MULTILIB
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:26:48 -0800 (PST)

I have a general opensource packaging/build question that is sort of
related to libtool (I think) and was hoping someone could answer it
or provide me with a pointer.

For an opensource package that consists of one or more libraries and
that uses configure, automake, libtool, and the usual packaging tools,
is there a standard way to say that you want multiple versions of a
library built?

For example with GCC there are GCC specific variables and macros you set
to build multiple versions of libgcc and put them in different
directories; say a 32 bit version in one directory and a 64 bit version
in another.  I belive these macros are specific to GCC, and are not
something handled generically by any tool used in the packaging of GCC
and I was wondering if there was a more generic way of handling this for
simpler packages?

So for example, if I was shipping an opensource product that consisted
of sources that get built into a single library and I wanted the user to
be able to build two versions of that library, one 32 bits and one 64
bits, what would I do?  Should I just tell the user to do two builds,
with different options and different install directories?  Or could I
use the -print-multi-lib option on GCC to see what versions I should
build?  What if the user isn't using GCC?  Or is there some better way
to handle this that I don't know about?  Is libtool even involved in
this question at all?

Steve Ellcey
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