Re: [gentoo-dev] fhs and multilib question

[Alexey Shvetsov]

Hi all,

There is a draft of fhs-3.0[1]

Also i think that lib should be symlink to lib64 on 64bit systems its 
at least
will be consistent

My 0.02 $CURRENCY.

[1] http://dev.linuxfoundation.org/~licquia/fhs-3.0-drafts/fhs.html


On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:50:28 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been dealing with a bug in openrc which prompted me to look at
> our directory structure for libraries on 64 bit systems. The bug will
> be
> referenced below[1]. The problem in the bug isn't the location of
> libraries, but the fact that there is a mount point stored under the
> library directories.
>
> Here is what I've found in fhs [2].
>
> - /lib should always exist on all architectures.
> - /lib64 should only exist on amd64, ppc64, sparc64 and s390x. It
> 	should hold 64 bit libraries, and /lib should hold 32 bit (or 31 bit
> 	on s390x) libraries.
> - /lib should hold 64 bit libraries on ia64.
> - FHS mentions /lib32 but doesn't really define what goes in it, and
> with
>   the definition of when /lib64 is to be used, there doesn't seem to
> be a
>   need for /lib32.
> - Also, it seems questionable that /lib is a symlink to /lib64 on
>   non-multilib systems. I think we should still have separate /lib
> and
>   /lib64 directories.
>
> Constructive criticism of this idea, thoughts, etc, are welcome.
>
> If there is no opposition, what would it take for us to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> William
>
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381783
> [2] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#LIB64

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Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia
Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics
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