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[Dan Weatherill <dan.weatherill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Carsten,
have you tried specifying -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE=x86_64-linux-gnu
when calling cmake in the build script?

Relevant documentation here, in roughly the 2nd paragraph:
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/command/find_library.html

Thanks,
Dan W

On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 19:23:25 GMT Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as written some days ago I'm working currently on packaging of ngspice
> for Debian main.
> For this I must follow the Debian (packaging) policy [1]. This requires
> the installation of shared libraries into /usr/lib/triplet due policy
> 9.1.1.4 (see [2]). triplet means here the architecture there the
> installation is happen. For i386 this would be the folder
> '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu' and for amd64 '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' and
> so on.
> 
> The build of the KiCad development tree is currently not working with
> those folders as the cmake snippet for libngspice does not care about
> this constellation.
> 
> I would provide a patch here to fix this but I have no real clue about
> CMake! So I requesting some help here, could please someone with more
> knowledge than me improve the cmake helper for libngspice to search also
> in such folders for the library? The header is already found in the new
> (default) installation folder /user/include.
> So far I've could find relevant and depended information the path there
> to look while searching for libngsice.so would be
> /usr/lib/${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE} for CMake.
> 
> And, if someone is going to dig into this could also be added the search
> and pickup of a pkg-config file for libngspice? I will work on adding a
> pkg-config file for libngspice in the next week so it would be great if
> the intelligence for using of a pkg-config file could be added in the
> same go.
> 
> I think something like this logic should be sufficient and not collide
> with the current content.
> 
> if (pkg-config found)
>   do read the pkg-config
> else
>   search for the devel files manually
> fi
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I gladly help to test modifications of Findngspice.cmake.
> 
> [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
> [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#file-system-structure

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