Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] binary 32-bit libs, LDPATH questions
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:08:12
Message-Id: 43390B85.5000404@gotadsl.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] binary 32-bit libs, LDPATH questions by Tres Melton
1 Tres Melton wrote:
2
3 > [...] It is changing so that /usr/lib points to the
4 > default bitness of the host. So /usr/lib has 64bit
5 > libraries, /usr/lib64 is a pointer to /usr/lib and /usr/lib32 is where
6 > the 32 bit stuff should go.
7
8 Your first statement matches what I find on this 2005.1 box, but not your
9 second. I have /usr/lib64 with 64-bit libraries, /usr/lib32 with 32-bit
10 stuff and /usr/lib pointing to /usr/lib64. All perfectly natural and
11 reasonable, and what I would have designed had it been up to me :-)
12
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14 Rgds
15 Peter Humphrey
16 Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93.
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