Re: Relocated Header Directories

From	Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Relocated Header Directories
Date	2017-08-21 21:00 +0200
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On 08/21/2017 09:02 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 08:37:14AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
>> Hi everyone -
>>
>> It seems Debian has moved some header directories, like /usr/include/bits (and
>> sys, and asm, etc.) from /usr/include/ to, e.g., /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/bits/
>> (arch-specific).
>>
>> My first question is:  Why?
> Multi-arch. These days you can have libraries (and the corresponding
> headers) for several architectures co-installed on your system.
>
> Start here:
>
>   https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch
Thanks for your response and the link.  I'll respond more fully to the other
reply in this thread since they are both so similar.
>
>> My second question is: How does this work?  There are no symlinks, yet a file
>> like /usr/include/signal.h, has the standard "#include <bits/sigset.h>", yet
>> that path does not exist with the change noted above.  So how is this file
>> included?
> Your compiler should know which architecture is relevant and set the default
> include directories (can't look it up now to be sure, sorry).
>
> Cheers
> - -- tomás
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Relocated Header Directories Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2017-08-21 15:40 +0200
  Re: Relocated Header Directories Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2017-08-21 16:10 +0200
    Re: Relocated Header Directories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-21 16:20 +0200
    Re: Relocated Header Directories Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2017-08-21 21:20 +0200
      Re: Relocated Header Directories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-21 22:00 +0200
        Re: Relocated Header Directories Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2017-08-21 22:10 +0200
      Re: Relocated Header Directories Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2017-08-22 07:10 +0200
        Re: Relocated Header Directories Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-22 16:50 +0200
          Re: Relocated Header Directories Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2017-08-22 17:00 +0200
            Re: Relocated Header Directories Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-22 17:00 +0200
  Re: Relocated Header Directories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-21 16:10 +0200
    Re: Relocated Header Directories Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2017-08-21 21:00 +0200

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