Re: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question
Thomas Steffen <steffen.list.account@gmail.com> writes:
> On 7/5/05, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>> * Lennart Sorensen (lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
>> > Many packages/programs have hardcoded paths in them which will look in
>> > /usr/lib and not in your new directory.
>>
>> Then they're busted and need to be fixed.
>
> I guess you first have to explain how it do better. Assume you have
> two glibc versions, one in 32bit and one in 64bit. They both need to
> load locale plugins. The path is hard coded because there is not
> really an alternative. Environment variables may not reflect the
> process architecture. Configuration files just move the problem by one
> level. And the PATH/LD_PATH does not contain the plugins, because they
> should not be user visible.
>
> I have one or two ideas how this could be solved, but it is definately
> not easy.
>
> Thomas
Both libs have the path hardcoded to /usr/lib/<arch>-<os>/. Where is
the problem?
The libc also needs to load nss modules. Same subdirs for those.
MfG
Goswin
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