On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> What are your thoughts? > > If this already was discussed then sorry for the noise: > > What is the rationale for merging lib32 with lib? > Wouldn't it be somewhat cleaner to have a completely > split structure > > lib64 > lib32 > libx32 (possibly) > lib
Here are a couple of reasons: 1. Other distros (notably Red Hat and Fedora) put 32-bit libs in "lib". 2. The path to the 32-bit runtime linker (/lib/ld-linux.so.2) is hard-coded in every x86 binary on your system.
