From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 98674 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2018 05:30:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libffi-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libffi-discuss-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 98612 invoked by uid 89); 6 Feb 2018 05:30:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=HTo:U*green, 04022018, 04.02.2018, H*RU:sk:ip5f5bd X-HELO: einhorn-mail.in-berlin.de Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de (HELO einhorn-mail.in-berlin.de) (192.109.42.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 05:30:44 +0000 X-Envelope-From: doko@ubuntu.com Received: from [192.168.178.37] (ip5f5bd6a7.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de [95.91.214.167]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-8+deb8u2) with ESMTP id w165Txmm025347 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 6 Feb 2018 06:29:59 +0100 Subject: Re: Header installation directory To: Anthony Green , noloader@gmail.com Cc: libffi-discuss@sourceware.org References: From: Matthias Klose Message-ID: <8699c1b4-a39d-408b-a66e-b99f9f6e2a89@ubuntu.com> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 05:30:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 On 04.02.2018 02:03, Anthony Green wrote: > Jeffrey Walton 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