[fpc-devel] fp IDE and gdbint on Debian Wheezy/testing

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 26.10.2012 23:28, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
> Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> 
>> Florian's suggestion is correct: debian is changing some paths beginning
>> with debian wheezy to improve multi-arch support.
>>
>> While on sparc this may not matter and maybe not needed, it's probably
>> done on all platforms to reduce maintenance.
>>
>> I.e. libc startup files and such are now in /usr/lib/<arch-triplet>.
>> Debian based distros like Ubuntu also do that in recent versions
>> already. At least on 12.10 here I have these files
>> in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu although it's a 32 bit only system.
> 
> After Florian's suggestion I spent a few minutes reading Debian's
> comments on their multi-arch changes, and was struck by their admission
> that they anticipated that they would cause pain.

I added already several weeks ago the new multi-arch pathes as
additional default search pathes to armhf-linux but since people didn't
like this change I didn't add it for the other architectures.

> 
> Trying to anticipate some of this, please could somebody with a (Linux)
> x86-64 system check that 32-bit fpc works reliably (i.e. using the
> facilities from the binfmt_misc kernel module). I tried running fpc on
> an IA-64 system a few days ago with partial success, and if pending
> changes are about to cause problems I think this is something worth
> sorting out.
>