Re: AMD64 Status Update -- And Future Directions
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> Just yesterday on IRC I read a discussion on #debian-devel that accused
> the rest of the world as being wrong and stupid.
Standards --- they're all stupid, but you have to pick *something*.
> You will break compatibility for something. Either binaries that look
> for 32bit libs in /lib (debian-i386) or those that look for 64bit libs
> in /lib (pure-amd64). Agreed, pure-amd64 does not follow the, so
> called, standards.
which is exactly why you are *extremely* unlikely to find binary-only
software built for pure64. So your argument is moot.
> How about this:
> - map all files in .../lib/ to .../lib/${arch}/
> - change ld.so to pick the right libs at link time
You managed to miss my whole point. There are standards. The standards
say that certain things go in /lib. You can't symlink /lib/i386 to /lib.
That just doesn't work.
You may not like the standard, but that doesn't change it.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/lsb/spec/archLSB/X86-64/spec.html?rev=HEAD
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/specs.php
--scott
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