Florian Weimer wrote: >* Steve McIntyre: > >>>In addition if we are using a new multiarch triplet, and need to >>>rebuild the world, are going to be ABI incompatible anyway, we might >>>as well use a proper multiarch-qualified ld.so pathname that does >>>not collide with anything. >> >> Hmmm. Moving ld.so is *hard* - we were already bitten by stuff here >> when we bootstrapped armhf initially. What we didn't know then (but >> know now!) is that the final element of the path (i.e. the filename) >> must be globally unique for glibc's code to work. We can't (for >> example) just move ld-linux-armhf.so.3 to a new directory, we'd have >> to rename the file itself. (Apologies if this is stuff you already >> know - I think it's worth explaining for others too!) > >These changes also require updates to the ABI manual and upstream >patches to the toolchain.
Nod. (and "yay" - been there, done that before...) >I don't think Debian's multi-arch path changes have been properly >upstreamed yet, either. Of course it does not help that key parts of >the GNU toolchain are more or less dead upstream; the lack of an >autoconf release is a real problem. ACK. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.
