Michael Kipper wrote: > Hello, > > Appologies if this is in the wrong group, but I figured this would be the > forum to ask this question. > > I've build an LFS system which is essentially entirely 64-bit, for my > Athlon64. However, there are a few occasions where i686 support is > required, specifically for GRUB, and more recently for me, for 32-bit > Firefox (extension support?). > > I've built a self-hosted i686 toolchain in /opt/i686-gcc, and adjusted the > linker for it as per LFS instructions so resulting binaries link to > /opt/i686-gcc/lib/ld-linux.so.2 > > My question is: Can I build 32- and 64-bit libraries, and stick them in > /lib32 and /lib64 and have them coexist? That is, when I run ldconfig, it > sees 32- and 64-bit versions of libX.so and adds them to the database. Then > 32-bit program foo requests libX.so, will the linker know to use the 32-bit > version of libX? > > If not, how have others gone about this?
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