On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 11:32:39AM +1200, Michael Hope wrote: > >So: > * Big endian: undefined, defaults to /lib/ld-linux.so.3 > * Little endian, soft float: /lib/ld-linux.so.3 > * Little endian, hard float: /libhf/ld-linux.so.3 > >> Standard upstream practice supports having multiple variants that >> plausibly run on the same system at the same time, such as /lib and >> /lib64, and it seems reasonable to support hard and soft float variants >> that way via a directory such as /libhf. The Debian-style paths are not >> the default on any other architecture and I don't think it's appropriate >> to make them the default for this particular case only. > >OK. Debian multiarch covers libraries and headers but not >executables. As a MIPS hard float /usr/bin/ls would collide with an >ARM hard float /usr/bin/ls then it's fine for the loader names to >potentially collide as well. > >In practice they wouldn't as most architecture has a subtily different >loader name (cf. ld.so.1 for MIPS, ld-linux.so.2 for i386, and >ld-linux.so.3 for ARM).
Yes, thankfully. More by luck than any design. Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre steve.mcint...@linaro.org <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
