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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Two requests for ebuild maintainers+writers
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:44:31
Message-Id: 200408272343.23405.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Two requests for ebuild maintainers+writers by Travis Tilley
1 On Friday 27 August 2004 18:51, Travis Tilley wrote:
2 > java is going to be stress if we have to support both a 64bit and 32bit
3 > jre... especially since azureus needs a 64bit SWT to work and such. i'd
4 > say that java stuff should probably not use $(get_libdir), or (almost)
5 > anything that ends up in /opt. that is, indeed, a good question that i
6 > hadnt thought of.
7
8 Actually the jar archives still should run on both systems. However the
9 architecture dependend (native) libs need to be located in their respective
10 dirs. That should magically work with either jdk (if both native libs are
11 installed) as long as the jar archives can be found. They should be the same
12 so also located at the same location.
13
14 >
15 > the chunk of the FHS that mentions lib64 notes that 64bit libraries
16 > should go there... so if it isnt a library and lives in lib, you might
17 > also not want to use $(get_libdir)... but that would all depend on how
18 > jstubbs eventually implements multilib dependency handling in portage,
19 > so it might just be safer to use $(get_libdir) even then to prevent file
20 > collisions. at the very least, it shouldnt cause problems on
21 > non-multilib systems since "$(get_libdir)" will always equal "lib" on
22 > them, and you dont have to worry about collisions. ;p
23
24 I guess the trick is to see where the installation scripts for the package
25 install it.
26
27 Paul
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30 Paul de Vrieze
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