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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib setup
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:37:50
Message-Id: 201109121635.22094.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib setup by Nathan Phillip Brink
1 On Monday, September 12, 2011 15:19:29 Nathan Phillip Brink wrote:
2 > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 03:55:49PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > as for no-multilib systems, "lib64" will be the same, and "lib" will be
4 > > symlinked to "lib64". this will be easier i think to share files between
5 > > multilib and non-multilib 64bit systems.
6 >
7 > Isn't this slightly more complicated than it needs to be? Why not just
8 > use /lib and no symlink for no-multilib 64-bit systems?
9
10 all the 64bit binaries have /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 encoded in them, so
11 /lib64/ must exist on the system.
12 -mike

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