Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch

[Mats Wichmann <mats@wichmann.us>]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
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> > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 01:28:04PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >     
> > > What does the LSB 3.1 say about amd64 and libdirs? Does it require lib
> > > to contain 32bit libs?
> > >       
> > Does this same question apply to other 64bit arches, like sparc64 or powerpc64
> > for example ? 
> >     
>
> Theoreticaly yes. But they have 32bit libs in lib and 64bit libs in
> lib64 anyway.
>
> Amd64 has 64bit libs in lib and lib64 (link to lib). 32bit libs are in
> /emul/ia32-linux/... and lib32 (link to emul) just like ia64 has. That
> is different from other linux distributions.
>
>   
> > Friendly,
> >
> > Sven Luther
> >     
>
> MfG
>         Goswin
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>   
the LSB for any given archtiecture does not require support for any 
others - they're independent. so the amd64 setup is fine via the 
symlink, *until* someone decides they want to support ia32 and amd64 on 
the same system, because in this case the ia32 libs are expected to be 
in /lib (same issue for ia64 fwiw). LSB did have a proposal for that 
written by Matt Taggart, but not implemented in the spec.