Re: lib64 in fedora glibc

David Mosberger
2004-05-28T22:14:54Z

>>>>> On Fri, 28 May 2004 17:41:05 -0400, Aron Griffis <aron@HP.COM> said:

Aron> These snippets from the current fedora glibc.spec look suspicious to
Aron> me.. I was under the impression that ia64 would use /lib for 64-bit
Aron> and /lib32 for 32-bit (or something like that), but it looks like RH
Aron> is preparing to transition to lib64.

I'm no Fedora expert but here it says:

Aron> %changelog:
Aron> * Thu May 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.3.3-29
Aron> - use lib64 instead of lib on ia64 if %%{_lib} is defined to lib64

So I guess the question is what would make %%{_lib} be defined as lib64.

IMHO, it would be a bad mistake to create such a disruption.

--david