Re: libc6

[Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>]

Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:54:00AM -0700, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>> Hmm, ok.. so to clarify I meant something like: /usr/amd64/{bin,lib}
>> Being able to seperate out the 64bit libs and binaries is the goal.
> Again - how would you resolve when you type in in command line "top" -
> which app it should use 32bit or 64bit?

The obvious answer seems to be "whichever is first in $PATH".  Is
there some case I'm missing where the user or system administrator
cannot get proper behavior by setting PATH (for example, set
PATH=/usr/amd64/bin:/usr/bin to prefer 64-bit executables)?

Michael