Re: cross binutils-dev

Wookey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.embedded
Organization Wookware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
+++ Jonathan Nieder [2013-01-24 13:58 -0800]:
> Wookey wrote:
> 
> > Now binutils-dev is not currenly multiarch, but is just libs and
> > headers so can easily be made so. However it depends on binutils,
> > which cannot be an MA:same package as it's full of arch-specific
> > binaries. (assembler, linker. etc). However it also contins two
> > libraries 
> >  /usr/lib/libbfd-2.23.1-system.so
> >  /usr/lib/libopcodes-2.23.1-system.so
> 
> Exactly.  So one fix would be to split out a libbinutils package, with
> a symbols file making clear that Debian packages are not supposed to
> link to it.

What does the symbols file contains that makes this clear? Just
comments, or are there some suitable runes?

Wookey
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