Re: Loader Magic

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Jerry Haltom <jhaltom@feedbackplusinc.com> writes:

> I'd just like to see how many violent reactions I get from the idea of
> throwing all libs into /lib, but naming the libs differently depending
> on their ABI:
> 
> libbob.1.2.3_x86-64.so
> libbob.1.2.3_x86.so

The ABI would be:

libbob.1.2.3_ia32.so
libbob.1.2.3_amd64.so
 
> There's gotta be some reason I'm missing why this is a worse idea than
> /lib64.
> 
> :)

By now mainly because SuSe/RH don't do it.

MfG
        Goswin