[luatex] [tex-live] lltxplatform integration

[Hans Hagen]

On 6/5/2015 11:18 AM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jun 2015, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
>> And how to place them for differnt architectures (e.g., coexisting i686 and
>> x86_64) such that the 32- and 64-bit executables find the corresponding
>> shared objects?
>
> I think the problem is not the positioning. We can easiky have
> 	Master/lib/<ARCH>/...
> and include that in some way. The problem is with portability within
> the same arch/os combinations, from CentOS over SuSE to Debian et cetc,
> all would need to be usable with *the*same* .so.
>
> I am not sure if that works, we haven't tried. And I am not sure
> I want t ask all builders to try it out ;-)

right, so the main purpose of some kind of support is that power users 
who have workflows depending on whatever library have a way to use them

(there are more interesting things to do in life then fighting changing 
apis and dependencies)

Hans

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