[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#640680: Multiarch

[Riku Voipio]

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:43:12PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> Thanks for the patch, I wil ltry to commit it in the next version of imagemagick
 
> However could give a piece of advice. Do you think it is a good
> solution for multiarch to reimplement config script using pkgconfig ?

It is an acceptable solution. However, such dramatic change should be discussed
with upstream, because debian should really not carry such big changes.

I would suggest a step-by-step progress, eg uploading first with the patch I proposed
(converting imagemagick to M-A: foreign and the shared libs to M-A: same) and work
for a good solution for the -dev packages later.

I mean, I'd like to get at least those changes to debian this year, rather than
a perfect solution next year :)

> I see this
> http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2005/07/04/pkg-config-vs-cross-compile-and-multi-arch/
> but pkg-config cross does not work for me :S

That is quite old comment, multiarch cross work of pkg-config in debian will be quite
differently implemented. Eg you would run arm-linux-gnueabi-pkgconfig, the same way
you run arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc for cross-compiling gcc.

Riku