Re: AMD64 and lib64
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote:
> * 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...
>
> > You were at the multiarch talk during debconf4, and that is, IMO,
> > the sane way to do it.
>
> ... and multiarch is far away.
About as far away as patching everything to use /lib64 really.
Well, perhaps multiarch is a bit more work, but first patching for /lib64
and then reverting for multiarch is a significant effort better spent on
getting multiarch up and running.
> > 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?
Install the package ia32-libs and perhaps tinker a little bit. This works
with the pathscale compiler suite which is a fairly large and
non-trivial ia32 package.
This won't be LSB IA32 compliant, but it should be a workable solution for
those needing that for commercial packages etc.
> > | 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?
This might be an issue though.
/Mattias Wadenstein
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