On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 7:12 AM Ken Cunningham < ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> 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. > If I build something for i386 and something else for x86_64 on macOS (which is technically possible) without knowing what and why I am doing, that won’t work either. Doing silly stuff will bring silly results. TBH, I don’t see a meaningful reason why a non-developer would want to build for 32-bit on a 64-bit system (visa versa perhaps is not even possible). On macOS it might make sense on old systems, but why on modern Linux?
