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Re: Header installation directory

From: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
To: Anthony Green <green at moxielogic dot com>, noloader at gmail dot com
Cc: libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 06:29:58 +0100
Subject: Re: Header installation directory
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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

References:
- Header installation directory
  - From: Jeffrey Walton
- Re: Header installation directory
  - From: Anthony Green

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