Re: Loader Magic

[Jerry Haltom <jhaltom@feedbackplusinc.com>]

Well I would hate to see Debian make the wrong choice just because Suse
and Redhat did.

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 00:35, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 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
>