Le ven 25/04/2003 à 17:54, Arnd Bergmann a écrit : > > I am assuming that dlopen calls need to be modified to look for > > /usr/lib64 rather than /usr/lib on 64-bit architectures running > > 64-bit applications. > > This matter has been decided years ago by other people. /lib64 is > in the ELF psABI, see > http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/elf/x86_64-SysV-psABI.pdf, > and upstream packages (e.g. KDE) are using it already. > > There are no other options to putting the library files in /lib64. > The question that needs to be discussed here is how to get them > there in all the broken packages.
You know this will probably require modifications in *thousands* of packages ? I'm afraid I'm missing the point here : our other 64-bits arches don't use /lib64, and they aren't in bad shape. What incompatibilities would it bring to use our plain, good old /lib for x86-64 as well ? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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