Re: AMD64 and lib64
* Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
| * Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no> [2004-07-07 13:43]:
| > lib64 is ugly and wrong, wrong, wrong.
|
| But it's in LSB which Debian wants to follow...
The LSB, as the FHS, documents current practice. We want it to change.
lib64 is a wart on history and should never have been there.
| > You were at the multiarch talk during debconf4, and that is, IMO,
| > the sane way to do it.
|
| ... and multiarch is far away.
Not that far away, really. Or rather, release-wise, it's far away, but
getting a system with multiarch working isn't _that_ much work.
| > We don't do that. At least not for the current AMD64 port. It's a pure
| > 64 bit port without any 32 bit compatibility. The way to do multiarch
|
| What about people who need 32 bit compatibility?
They should run our i386 port. In a chroot if they so want. (Or use
the ia32-libs package, which might or might not work.) A chroot
approach will give you a 32 bit LSB environment just fine.
| > | For binary compatability reasons with other distributions you should
| > | be also careful that all of the application binaries refer to /lib64
| > | rather than /lib.
| >
| > We are aware of that, and /lib64 is a symlink for the time being.
|
| This doesn't help when someone wants to run Debian binaries on another
| architecture. Does Debian want to be perceived as incompatible with
| the rest of the world?
huh, why don't you think that helps?
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