Big ugly build changes might be needed for Debian/Ubuntu

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Scott Ritchie wrote:
> So, multiarch is going along well in Debian/Ubuntu, and by next distro
> release Wine should be building as a proper multiarch package.  Previous
> hacks like ia32-libs will be dead for good.
> 
> 
> A side effect of this change, however, is the current build daemons ONLY
> have packages for one architecture.  This means that, at build time, you
> won't be able to pull in the 32-bit packages on a 64-bit build daemon.
> 
> 
> From what I understand, this change is originating in Debian (and thus
> propagating to Ubuntu).  I believe the motivations are mostly ease of
> management of the build daemons -- only by doing this, for instance, can
> an entire architecture be properly isolated and self-contained.
> 
> 
> This means for bi-arch Wine, we will need to either:
>  - Make Wine support building in pure 64-bit mode and then calling the
> 32-bit subsystem from a separate binary
>  - Make a very persuasive case that Wine isn't the only package that
> needs to have multiple architectures at build time
> 
> 
> Hopefully I'm overestimating the amount of work involved, as this sort
> of architecture modularity might be a "nice to have" in Wine anyway.
> 
> If none of this is doable by next release, we'll just have a 32-bit only
> Wine, which isn't really any worse than the situation now.
http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64ForPackagers

bye
	michael