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From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lib64 in fedora glibc
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:48:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hollj7wquv.fsf@reger.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040528214105.GK9115@mustard.zk3.dec.com>

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Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:33:36PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
>> > So I guess the question is what would make %%{_lib} be defined as lib64.
>> 
>> Right, that's why I suggested it appears they're preparing for the
>> transition. 
>
> "the transition" might be necessary to support x86_64.
> Ie most of user space is 32-bit (using /lib) but some apps
> will run substantially better as native x86_64 binaries.

Just a clarification: AMD64 [1] has most of user space 64-bit.  Only a
few applications are 32-bit - but this lib/lib64 is the best way to
handle 32-bit packages (no need to change files).

> Moving to lib32 and lib64 makes sense in that environment.

Not lib32, just lib.

Andreas

Footnotes: 
[1]  at least the SUSE distribution but I assume others as well.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-01  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-28 21:41 lib64 in fedora glibc Aron Griffis
2004-05-28 22:14 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-29  3:33 ` Aron Griffis
2004-05-29  5:21 ` Grant Grundler
2004-06-01  9:48 ` Andreas Jaeger [this message]
2004-06-04  4:58 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-04  5:08 ` Andreas Jaeger
2004-06-04  6:21 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-04  8:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-04 19:23 ` Bill Nottingham
2004-06-04 20:14 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-04 20:21 ` Bill Nottingham
2004-06-04 22:15 ` David Mosberger
2004-06-07 20:05 ` Saxena, Sunil
2004-06-07 20:09 ` Bill Nottingham
2004-06-07 21:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-06-07 21:18 ` Bill Nottingham
2004-06-07 21:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-06-07 22:14 ` Bill Nottingham

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