Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Tres Melton <tres@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] binary 32-bit libs, LDPATH questions
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:46:40
Message-Id: 1127803486.6208.141.camel@thor.tres.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] binary 32-bit libs, LDPATH questions by Richard Freeman
1 On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 22:22 -0400, Richard Freeman wrote:
2
3 > Is it illegal to install 32-bit in /usr/lib? I thought that */lib/* was
4 > 32-bit, and */lib64/* was 64-bit. In any case, compliance wasn't my
5 > biggest goal since the whole thing is a kludge...
6
7 That used to be the case. It is changing so that /usr/lib points to the
8 default bitness of the host. So /usr/lib has 64bit
9 libraries, /usr/lib64 is a pointer to /usr/lib and /usr/lib32 is where
10 the 32 bit stuff should go.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] binary 32-bit libs, LDPATH questions Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk>
[gentoo-amd64] Re: binary 32-bit libs, LDPATH questions Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>