Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:32:15AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Also I think amd64 is compatible but not compliant to i386 and amd64
>> LSB. Meaning ia32 and amd64 LSB compliant programs will run on
>> pure64. But ia32 binaries (which you can't even build) or amd64
>> libraries from pure64 might not run on an ia32 compliant system
>> (library debs don't install into an lsb compliant palce on non
>> debian).
>
> Isn't the build-time specification of the linker path an important part
> of the LSB ABI? Has amd64 really addressed this?
Library path during building can be all over the place. They can be in
/lib, /usr/lib, /usr/X11R6/lib, /usr/local/lib, /opt/lib, ~/lib/ and
countles other places. Setting any kind of fixed path is unworkable.
If the autotools find the libs on their own we should be ship shape.
MfG
Goswin
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