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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Xavier Miller <xaviermiller@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] amd64 17.1 profiles ready for testing
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 07:59:53
Message-Id: F30DD439-DF7A-4FB0-95A7-83B15357E6A5@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] amd64 17.1 profiles ready for testing by Xavier Miller
1 Dnia 11 grudnia 2017 08:25:22 CET, Xavier Miller <xaviermiller@g.o> napisał(a):
2 >Le 2017-12-10 23:24, Michał Górny a écrit :
3 >> I suspect you mean python-exec scripts, because Python modules still
4 >> land in /usr/lib64. In which case, everything's fine.
5 >
6 >Could be.
7 >
8 >Glad to hear the migration is OK.
9 >
10 >My systems are migrated, and stable.
11 >
12 >Just a last dummy question : why is lib64 migrated to lib64 and lib32
13 >to
14 >lib, and not the reverse?
15 >We have /lib and /lib64 that were before merged, and /lib32 that was an
16 >
17 >exception and prone to disapear the day blobs will decide to finally go
18 >
19 >64 bits.
20
21 It's because x86 (32-bit) ABI specifies that libraries are located in lib, and x86_64 ABI uses lib64. We've so far had to hack some stuff (binutils notably) to support lib32.
22
23 >
24 >Anyway, thank you for the job done!
25 >
26 >Xavier.
27
28
29 --
30 Best regards,
31 Michał Górny (by phone)

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