On 04/05/2012 03:30 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 07:09:46 -0500
Dennis Gilmore<den...@gilmore.net.au> wrote:
Fedora does use /lib64 on x86_64 I would personally prefer /libhfp but
wouldn't object to /libhf though today we have f17 about to go beta
and all of rawhide built using /lib
Hi Dennis,
One potential problem that is born from the /libhf suggestion is the
danger of having a new top level directory (/libhf) with only one
file, the dynamic linker. AFAIU it, no distro is currently willing to
move away from its existing scheme (/lib), Debian is most likely not
going to, at best there could be a symlink /libhf -> /lib/<triplet>,
but that is not solving the problem IMHO. What about other distros,
if everyone is going to use a symlink for /libhf, then even
suggesting it and relying on new top-level directories to solve the
problem is the wrong approach.
Loic suggested a -IMHO- better solution: to change the dynamic linker
filename, not the dir, i.e. /lib/ld-linux-hf.so.3 (for this
particular case).
Note that Fedora is a moving target and there already was a mentioning¹
of /lib/<triplet> for libraries earlier this year during a developers
conference². I am not sure what the current status of that proposal is,
but I think it is entirely possible that Fedora may follow the format
Debian is using.
Cheers,
Niels
¹ see page 5 from this presentation:
http://rvokal.fedorapeople.org/devconf2012/harald-A_streamlined_and_fully_compatible_Linux_Files.pdf
² http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2012
