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El Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:25:56 -0500
Jon Masters <[email protected]> escribió:
> On 11/19/2012 09:29 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
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> > El Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:06:20 +0000
> > Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> escribió:
> >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:49:06PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> >>> On 09/17/2012 06:24 AM, Wookey wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The upstream patches have used the existing (poor man's
> >>>> multiarch) paths:
> >>>> /lib64
> >>>> /usr/lib64
> >>>> in order to make them fit in with existing upstream convention.
> >>>
> >>> I originally wanted to use /lib, but we're going to switch
> >>> to /lib64 for consistency with other 64-bit architectures, and so
> >>> on. I am concerned that we agree on the linker, but not on other
> >>> library paths. Will Debian and Ubuntu consider a package that
> >>> includes /lib64 "compatibility" symlinks so that non-multiarch
> >>> systems can share code with multi-arch ones? We don't need to
> >>> break this :)
> >>
> >> Those symlinks have been included in Debian for ages for amd64, so
> >> they'll be there for AArch64 too.
> 
> > so the question i see right now is where is the linker to be
> > located on the system? I personally think that it should go
> > in /lib64/ and before anyone gets to far in bootstrapping we should
> > fix it upstream to be located there. Does anyone disagree?
> 
> Hi Dennis,
> 
> I know we talked about this earlier, and I understand your concerns,
> but I think it is too late for this discussion. The upstream patches
> are already using /lib, and several distributions have already picked
> up that location. The path includes (specifically) the architecture
> in the path name component, so it won't interfere if someone did want
> to make a 32-bit mutli-lib arrangement in /lib with 64-bit in /lib64.
> 
> The only reason for making a change at this time appears to be
> cosmetic, for removing /lib for example. I can understand that, and
> if we were discussing this a year ago (or even months ago when I
> first raised it on this list), then it might be a reasonable change,
> but at this time I cannot find an overwhelming technical
> justification.

It has absolutely nothing to do with removing /lib thats not possible
it has to do with compatability and consistency with other 64 bit
arches. x86_64 sparc64 ppc64 all put the linker in /lib64

Dennis
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