On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Nathan Phillip Brink <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 03:55:49PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > as for no-multilib systems, "lib64" will be the same, and "lib" will be > > symlinked to "lib64". this will be easier i think to share files between > > multilib and non-multilib 64bit systems. > > Isn't this slightly more complicated than it needs to be? Why not just > use /lib and no symlink for no-multilib 64-bit systems? > Well, the last sentence you quoted is the answer: "this will be easier i think to share files between multilib and non-multilib 64bit systems." Whether having to maintain separate binaries for multilib and non-multilib amd64 systems is worth the tradeoff of having two lib directories is up for debate I guess. I'm not sure how many people install precompiled 64-bit binaries on their systems, but anybody who does maintain such a setup would probably prefer not to have to build against libraries both in /lib64 and /lib. Rich
