Excerpts from Jonathan Nieder's message of Tue Aug 02 21:01:34 +0200 2011: > Hi, > > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Aug 2011, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > >> Also you can have libraries for *both* subarchs and there is no way to > >> tell on what arch you are actually running, /etc/ld.so.conf will surely > >> include both. > > > > Sorry I have been a bit quick to close the report. But it's more a > > wishlist request than a real bug. > > I still don't understand the use case. Why does update-initramfs care > what the "native" arch is? During a crossgrade, what is the native > arch? Does some heuristic like taking NSS modules from the same > directory as libc work?
I have usually 2 copies of libc on a system, up to 3 can be installed. It's possible to take some random binary which is likely to be native (eg. /bin/sh), run ldd on it, and parse the output to determine what libc is actually used. Quite convoluted. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
