* Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040116 20:18]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Claus Färber) writes: > > > Hallo, > > > > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote: > > > And the biggest job is changing every library package to build the > > > amd64 flavour and put its libraries into /lib64/. But that can be done > > > step by step as needed to compile binaries for amd64 > > > > The method of putting libraries into /lib/ and /lib64/ does not work if > > you want to have i386 and ppc, for example, on the same system. While > > this is not possible at the moment, it will be once someone writes a > > good CPU emulator... (or with CLI). > > The decision to put libraries inot /lib and /lib64 has been made quite > some time ago and works fine. I would say thats pretty much > unchangeable now without a realy good reason. Everyone objecting to > /lib64 is a few years to late.
I've actually heard a good solution to the objections...
- install 32bit in /lib/lib*.so,
- install 64bit in /lib/64/lib*.so,
- and create a symlink /lib64 -> /lib/64/ for compatibility reasons.
B.
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