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From: Xavier Miller <xaviermiller@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] amd64 17.1 profiles ready for testing
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 08:02:08
Message-Id: 942137e52483fbc5bd481c62a8a308f9@cauwe.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] amd64 17.1 profiles ready for testing by "Michał Górny"
1 OK thanks.
2
3 Have a nice day,
4 Xavier.
5
6 Le 2017-12-11 08:59, Michał Górny a écrit :
7 > Dnia 11 grudnia 2017 08:25:22 CET, Xavier Miller
8 > <xaviermiller@g.o> napisał(a):
9 >> Le 2017-12-10 23:24, Michał Górny a écrit :
10 >>> I suspect you mean python-exec scripts, because Python modules still
11 >>> land in /usr/lib64. In which case, everything's fine.
12 >>
13 >> Could be.
14 >>
15 >> Glad to hear the migration is OK.
16 >>
17 >> My systems are migrated, and stable.
18 >>
19 >> Just a last dummy question : why is lib64 migrated to lib64 and lib32
20 >> to
21 >> lib, and not the reverse?
22 >> We have /lib and /lib64 that were before merged, and /lib32 that was
23 >> an
24 >>
25 >> exception and prone to disapear the day blobs will decide to finally
26 >> go
27 >>
28 >> 64 bits.
29 >
30 > It's because x86 (32-bit) ABI specifies that libraries are located in
31 > lib, and x86_64 ABI uses lib64. We've so far had to hack some stuff
32 > (binutils notably) to support lib32.
33 >
34 >>
35 >> Anyway, thank you for the job done!
36 >>
37 >> Xavier.