Quality of RH & Gentoo AMD64 ports (was Re: Concerns about AMD64 port)
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 12:42, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:55:58AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > * John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org) wrote:
[big snippage]
> > > 1) RH/SuSe have a /lib with 32bit libraries and a /lib64 with 64bit
> > > libraries on their amd64 systems.
> > > 2) The FHS (I think?) and/or other standards groups are putting in their
> > > standards that the 32bit loader is to be at /lib/ld-linux.so and the
> > > 64bit loader at /lib64/ld-linux-amd64.so (or whatever the specific
> > > names are).
> > > 3) Debian wants to be standards compliant, of course.
> > > 4) Installing 64bit libraries to /lib64 is pretty difficult just to
> > > begin with and have everything work under Debian with the automated
> > > build systems and whatnot.
> >
> > Ah ha. That makes some sense at least. And yet, at the same time, how
> > are RH and Gentoo doing it?
>
> badly?
How so?
[big snippage]
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