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Bug#888073: glibc: Support amd64 systems without /lib64



On 2018-01-24 17:08, Javier Serrano Polo wrote:
> Source: glibc
> Version: 2.26-4
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> amd64 systems can work perfectly without a /lib64 directory. Since I am
> unlikely to convince you to ship ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 under /lib instead

I am not convinced about that. The dynamic linker path is part of the
x86-64 ABI and is present in all ELF executables. Moving it means
rebuilding all the packages. It should probably be done using a
different architecture than "amd64".

Could you please explain it how it works and what would be the use case?

> of /lib64 by default, could you allow this option with a build profile,
> e.g. nolib64?

I am not convinced we want to add extra complexity in our already
complex makefiles and maintainer scripts unless there is a real use case.
This tend to bitrot and break other parts of the code.

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
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