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

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

Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> writes:

> * Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> [040116 20:18]:
> > claus@xn--frber-gra.muc.de (Claus Färber) writes:
> > 
> > > Hallo,
> > > 
> > > Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> schrieb/wrote:
> > > > And the biggest job is changing every library package to build the
> > > > amd64 flavour and put its libraries into /lib64/. But that can be done
> > > > step by step as needed to compile binaries for amd64
> > > 
> > > The method of putting libraries into /lib/ and /lib64/ does not work if
> > > you want to have i386 and ppc, for example, on the same system. While
> > > this is not possible at the moment, it will be once someone writes a
> > > good CPU emulator... (or with CLI).
> > 
> > The decision to put libraries inot /lib and /lib64 has been made quite
> > some time ago and works fine. I would say thats pretty much
> > unchangeable now without a realy good reason. Everyone objecting to
> > /lib64 is a few years to late.
> 
> I've actually heard a good solution to the objections...
> 
> - install 32bit in /lib/lib*.so,
> - install 64bit in /lib/64/lib*.so,
> - and create a symlink /lib64 -> /lib/64/ for compatibility reasons.
> 
> B.

Create the /lib/64 dir and link and the rest will follow already :)

If thats do be done, setting dpkg-libinfo to output lib/64 is trivial.

MfG
        Goswin