From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3CFE7139694 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 18:10:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7C0AE0BCF; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 18:10:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 835E3E0AC9 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 18:10:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-it0-f50.google.com (mail-it0-f50.google.com [209.85.214.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8504134186B for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 18:10:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-it0-f50.google.com with SMTP id v127so29001766itd.0 for ; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 11:10:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw111j15VTBL93+KAhcTiX4wvx2JhvEy2ypOOBR8K3xqXOk6oFf4jO 7U0JopdmJSYUjnwLJZfX+T+Evspqlg== X-Received: by 10.36.108.6 with SMTP id w6mr7002767itb.52.1501697433610; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 11:10:33 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.107.175.210 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 11:10:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1501689535.795.1.camel@gentoo.org> From: Mike Gilbert Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 14:10:13 -0400 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New SYMLINK_LIB=no migration tool for review To: Gentoo Dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2a4ae585-3ef4-42f7-88a8-906c1c53e304 X-Archives-Hash: 8f00db3ed84008a7c195031e71fd7e3b On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: >> >> What are your thoughts? > > If this already was discussed then sorry for the noise: > > What is the rationale for merging lib32 with lib? > Wouldn't it be somewhat cleaner to have a completely > split structure > > lib64 > lib32 > libx32 (possibly) > lib Here are a couple of reasons: 1. Other distros (notably Red Hat and Fedora) put 32-bit libs in "lib". 2. The path to the 32-bit runtime linker (/lib/ld-linux.so.2) is hard-coded in every x86 binary on your system.