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Re: Is it safe to build the cURL library as multi-arch?

From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 20:10:36 -0400

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> This is essentially what MacPorts does when it builds curl. I just
>> verified that even with curl 7.44.0 there are still vast differences in the
>> copies of curlbuild.h built for i386 and x86_64 such that this procedure is
>> still necessary.
>
> Yeps, we have actually not even tried to remove that requirement in recent
> years. And it probably wouldn't be that easy to do either.

Just bikeshedding, but I think that's an area where library authors
and package maintainers have to work with the tools available to them.
I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Jeff
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