Re: linking SPARC applications

[Jim Watson <jim@amarooas.com.au>]

Martin wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 16:53 +1000, Jim Watson wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been building SPARC applications -  I mean the shared libraries 
> > report SPARC in response to the file command.
> >
> > Now I noticed these are linked to various standard libs in /lib/v9 which 
> > report SPARC32PLUS, instead of linking to the required SPARC libs in /lib
> >
> > Is this something that has to be configured when building or is it 
> > something happens when running ldd? (I only have sun4u here)
> >     
>
> IIRC the output of ldd is something like
>
> libraryNameInProgram => /where/it/maps/to/on/this/system
>
> if the first is incorrect, you have to change you build system /
> environment.  If the second is incorrect you have to change how ld is
> set up on your system.
>
> Thus it would sound, to me, like your system was behaving correctly and
> the binaries should work on sun4m.
>
>
>   

Yes, but I like them to run on sparc (32) systems too.
Previously they always linked to /lib/blah.
Now something has changed so they now link to /lib/v9/blah
But I didn't change my build system so I guess it is something changed 
in debian.
Thats the bit I don't understand - what has changed?

thanks

jim