Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:14:52 +0200 | From | Stefan Smietanowski <> | Subject | Re: Pure 64 bootloaders |
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Hi.
>>Jim Gifford <maillist@jg555.com> writes: >> >>>I have been working on a project to create a Pure 64 bit distro of >>>linux, nothing 32 bit in the system. I can accomplish that with no >> >>Hopefully you're using /lib64 for that, otherwise your >>packages will be incompatible to everybody else and not >>FHS compliant. If you don't please don't submit any >>patches to hardcode this to upstream packages. > > > /lib64 sucks, as mentioned, and I thought FHS only required that the > linker be in /lib64. Thus, the actual libraries could be pretty much > anywhere (as it should be, really). Debian-amd64 uses a symlink from > /lib64 to /lib and provides the 64bit libraries and linker in /lib (but > when actually compiling does link binaries through /lib64 for FHS > compliance). > > Hopefully /lib64, et al, will die and multiarch will happen soon.
How exactly would multiarch support work then?
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