Linux surely looks in lib64. MacPorts might not be configuring linux to look in lib64 though.
Dumping everything in lib will probably work, until someone is expecting to do something like install 32 bit software on an 64 bit machine, at which point it will not function and that user will either have to fix it (and everything) or accept it can't be done. I'm no expert -- there are experts around here. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=369512 K > On Sep 17, 2024, at 5:41 PM, Fred Wright <f...@fwright.net> wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Fred Wright wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> >>> Of course, if you over-write 64 bit libs with 32 bit libs of the same name, >>> or vice versa, in the same location, you are just hosed, ldconfig or no >>> ldconfig. >>> Which is why linux has the lib32 and lib64 subfolders iin the first place. >> >> I don't disagree, but OP claimed that Linux never looks in lib64, which I >> suspect is just an artifact of failing to run ldconfig. > > And just to clarify, I'm saying that running ldconfig *instead of* messing > with libdir is probably the correct fix. > > Fred Wright
