Re: Upcoming Debian multiarch support (amd64, sparc64, s390x, mips64) [affects sarge slightly]

[Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>]

* Daniel Jacobowitz (dan@debian.org) wrote:
> Sorry, but you're so wrong.  First of all, the string
> "/lib/ld-linux.so.2" is hard-coded into every dynamic ELF binary, which
> rather limits your choice of library directories.  Secondly, the use of
> RPATH is more common than you think; libtool still generally causes it
> (no comment on that practice).  There are a number of other
> case-by-case problems also.

You can symlink it to /lib32, the 64bit ld.so is named different anyway.
That's a single special case.  RPATH *is* broken, sorry.  Things using
it would be better fixed.

	Stephen

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature