On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:50:28 -0500 William Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I have been dealing with a bug in openrc which prompted me to look at > our directory structure for libraries on 64 bit systems. The bug will > be referenced below[1]. The problem in the bug isn't the location of > libraries, but the fact that there is a mount point stored under the > library directories. > > Here is what I've found in fhs [2]. > > - /lib should always exist on all architectures. > - /lib64 should only exist on amd64, ppc64, sparc64 and s390x. It > should hold 64 bit libraries, and /lib should hold 32 bit (or > 31 bit on s390x) libraries. > - /lib should hold 64 bit libraries on ia64. That's basically profiles/features/multilib. While amd64 uses profiles/features/multilib/lib32. > If there is no opposition, what would it take for us to do this? Migration seems at least hard for users. Fresh systems should be simple to deal with. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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