Bug#888073: glibc: Support amd64 systems without /lib64
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> 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?
The dynamic loader cannot be moved, it is an ABI artifact, as you rightly state.
In Fedora we had the UsrMove project:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove
So there is a symlink from /lib64 to /usr/lib64, that's the best you can do IMO.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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