>>>>> "WH" == William Hubbs <[email protected]> writes:
WH> Here is what I've found in fhs [2]. [ the fhs's nonsense about lib vs lib32 vs lib64 ] WH> If there is no opposition, what would it take for us to do this? Please do not break the amd64 status quo; lib -> lib64 is the correct thing to do for both existing and new installs. The fhs fails to acknowledge the fact that the 64bit abi on amd64 is the native abi, and the 32bit is just a legacy compatibility. In reality amd64 should be treated exactly like ia64. The fhs got it wrong only due to an historical accident; (some at) amd was/were initially concerned that w/o harping on the ia32 compatibility as amd64's primary feature that they would loose sales. There might have been some reason to that argument at first -- at least for designed-to-be-out-of-date dists like rhel. But once 64 bit became mainstream and 64 bit dists hit the streets that old argument lost all of its value. Arguably, it should be lib64 pointing to lib, but lib pointing to lib64 works and can make some logic easier, so it should remain as is. Please ignore the fhs nonsense and leave it as it is. Thank you. -JimC -- James Cloos <[email protected]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
