[CMake] Fwd: cpack deb and multiarch support

[Eric Noulard]

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From: Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>
Date: 2012/12/31
Subject: Re: [CMake] cpack deb and multiarch support
To: felix <felix.schwitzer at gmx.at>


2012/12/27 felix <felix.schwitzer at gmx.at>:
> I build and pack my software (a library) with cmake/cpack and it works great,
> thanx for this great tool.
> But I'm not able to build a multiarch-debian package.
>
> My install directives are multiarch aware (using GNUInstallDirs) and I build
> the library on different buildmachines, so
> no crosscompiling is involved.
> After running cpack an such a native build I can install my package on a
> ubuntu-box, even a i368-deb on a 64-bit system,
> but I'm not able to co-install i368- and amd64-deb in parallel on the same
> machine.
> dpkg mentions that the package is not multiarch and after inspecting
> the generated control file I discovered that the field "Multi-Arch" is
> missing and I don't know how to set it.
>
> Did I overlook a CPACK_DEBIAN_??? configuration variable or is this feature
> simply missing in cpack (cmake 2.8.10)?

You did not, CPack Deb does not currently support MultiArch.
I don't even know the work to be done in order to support this.

If you do please file a feature request
http://public.kitware.com/Bug
and attach a patch proposal to it  I'll be please to have a look at it.

AFAIK the main entry for multi-arch on debian Wiki is there:
http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch
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