Re: Fix PR20425, multilib paths for -print-search-dirs

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>]

Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:24:18PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> I guess the risk is somewhat minimized in that presumably such
>> scripts would just search the multilib directory, and then a
>> non-existant subdirectory of the multilib directory, essentially
>> appending the multilib name twice.
>
> Yes, that was my thinking too.  I'll note that appending a multilib
> suffix in a script is not as easy as it sounds.  The difficulty is that
> the multilib_os_dir suffix can be different to the multilib_dir suffix,
> so the script needs to somehow figure which suffix to use on a given
> path.
>
>> Do we have evidence (like building a pile of packages with both default
>> and non-default multilibs on some systems) that this is safe?
>
> Not yet.  Perhaps Andreas will run a SuSE distro build with the patch?

[I know you meant my colleage Andreas S but let me answer instead]

We can do that, one of us gets back to you in a couple of days with
results,

Andreas
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