[OE-core] Proposed Multilib Implementation Brainstorming

[Koen Kooi]

Op 6 apr 2011, om 20:25 heeft Tom Rini het volgende geschreven:

> On 04/06/2011 01:47 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> 2011/4/5 Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>:
>> 
>> [...]
>>> 
>>> Does this make sense to everyone, are there any questions/ objections/
>>> concerns/ things I've missed?
>> 
>> I think most embedded systems would only use one lib. To take your
>> lib/lib64 example:
>> If I am developing for an embedded system I know whether it will run
>> as 32 or 64 bit, so there is no need to have both.
> 
> What about the case of new 64bit hardware and legacy software that's
> still 32bit?  This is a problem that embedded systems have and OE needs
> to support
> 
>> multilib has its merits when it comes to supporting multiple hardware systems.
>> However as in the embedded world one is typically targeting a specific
>> hardware configuration.
>> (actually I don't recall having seen requests for multilib on the ML
>> before, although I could have missed it).
> 
> You missed it :)  Roman Khimov posted a very basic thing years ago for
> dealing with the x86/x86_64 problem.

And Graeme fixed another batch of multilib problems way back at OEDEM in Berlin (2006?). So it has been on the table for a while :)

regards,

Koen