[Bug 739977] Re: PHP5 FTBFS in Natty

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:19:47PM -0000, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> > (It's unfortunate that we don't have time to convert the entire system in one cycle; 
> > if all of PHP5's build-deps were transitioned to multiarch, we could just pass 
> > --with-libdir=lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH).

> I tried that early on.  I don't think this is approach workable even in
> a perfect "one cycle conversion" world, because the --with-libdir option
> changes where .h files are looked for, as well as whe .a and .so files
> are looked for.  Multiarch moves .a and.so files around, but (from what
> I have seen) leaves .h files where they were, since they do not
> (generally) change with CPU architechure.

--with-libdir is actually documented to do exactly what we want.  It appears
to be how /usr/lib64 handling is done for RH / SuSE, and it should work as
well for multiarch.

I only ran into problems when trying --with-libdir when I got to openssl
detection, since openssl has not yet been multiarched.

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  PHP5 FTBFS in Natty