From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:41:10 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: Location of absolute IA32 shared objects. Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Doug Beattie (dbb@caldera.com) said: > `The /lib directory on x86 and IA64 will always contain the 32bit > libraries. IA64 systems should put their libraries in /lib64.' "This > way we don't need any special install hooks in the system, installer, > and package. It's all hardcoded." That doesn't make sense to me. For the dlopen()ing of things we're talking about, the reasons they are hardcoded paths is because *they are not in the standard library search path*. Bill