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From: Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>
To: Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>, noloader@gmail.com
Cc: libffi-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Header installation directory
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 05:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8699c1b4-a39d-408b-a66e-b99f9f6e2a89@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACxje5-bevrVPFc2ZeXyprBn74KkQi3zUGEA6TOhsjgAqU0FAg@mail.gmail.com>

On 04.02.2018 02:03, Anthony Green wrote:
> Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> The header file location seems a bit unusual. Are headers supposed to
>> be installed below the libdir?
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Thanks for your note.  See this thread for background info:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libffi-discuss/2017/msg00000.html
> 
> It's likely that nobody cares about multi-arch headers anymore, so maybe
> we should just forget about this and dump the arch specific headers in
> /usr/include.
> 
> Would anybody object?

They should be installed in standard locations. However that change should not
be backported to the GCC sources. Btw, do you plan to backport the recent libffi
development to be used in GCC 8?

Matthias

      reply	other threads:[~2018-02-06  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-02 18:28 Jeffrey Walton
2018-02-04  1:03 ` Anthony Green
2018-02-06  5:30   ` Matthias Klose [this message]

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