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On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 07:47:53 -0400 |
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Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 07/09/2016 17:01, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Hello, everyone. |
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> > |
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> > I've finally gotten around to wrapping up my multilib setup |
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> > in a profile, and providing necessary patches to system packages |
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> > to make it possible to use it without having to hack their mistaken |
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> > logic around. |
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> > |
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> > The profile is called 'no-lib-symlink', and is provided as an alternate |
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> > amd64 variant. Unlike the common profiles, it is based on three lib* |
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> > directories: lib32 for 32-bit binaries, lib64 for 64-bit binaries |
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> > and lib as a directory for software packages only (the new-style |
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> > libexec). |
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> [snip] |
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> Responding late to this. This change won't, in the future, affect mips |
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> multilib, will it? Remember, we've got three ABIs to juggle, and this proposed |
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> change looks like it might clobber one of those ABIs. |
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> o32 - old 32-bit, goes into /lib or /usr/lib. |
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> n32 - hybrid 32-bit/64-bit (like x32), goes into /lib32 or /usr/lib32. |
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> n64 - full 64-bit, goes into /lib64 or /usr/lib64 |
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> This basically follows the layout that old IRIX used to use when you had |
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> binaries/libs from all three ABIs mixed into the same root. |
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I don't think the patches I committed should cause any trouble for |
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mips. If at all, I think they are more likely to fix some imminent |
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trouble due to buggy transition logic. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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