Re: lib32

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Francesco Pietra <frapietra@alice.it> writes:

> As to amd64 debian etch OS (no IA32, no 32 chroot) I was examining what 
> happens on trying to launch there a scientific application in OpenGL that I 
> use on debian etch 32 and have to transfer to 64. The application directory 
> has self contained libraries but asked at the launching command for a shared 
> library (not found)
>
> libXm.so.3
>
> I did not expect to get the application running, I was just examining the 
> terminal info before engaging in a compilation at 64bit.
>
> To this regard, may I ask about the purpose of 
>
> /lib32
>
> present in my root partition and containing a large number of libraries?
>
> thank you
>
> francesco pietra

/lib32 is a link to /emul/ia32-linux/lib so ld.so will automatically
look for (32bit) libraries in that directory. If you have that links
and any dirs there then you did install ia32 packages.

Also, if starting a 32bit application complains about libraries not
being found then you have both 32bit support and the 32bit ld.so (from
libc6-i386) installed.

MfG
        Goswin