Re: LSB 3.1 status for etch

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

Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> 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