On Tuesday 20 November 2012 21:07:48 Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> El Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:25:56 -0500 Jon Masters escribió:
> > On 11/19/2012 09:29 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > > El Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:06:20 +0000  Steve McIntyre 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?
> > 
> > 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

that's actually not true.  s390x uses /lib/ld64.so.1.  to a lesser degree, 
uClibc's 64bit is usually in /lib/ as well.
-mike

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