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From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] PROPOSED: 32/64 bit coexistance
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:53:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805194@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805193@msgid-missing>

>>>>> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:02:14 -0600, Doug Beattie <dbb@caldera.com> said:

  Doug> Your reponse is welcome and invited.  The LSB and FHS groups
  Doug> are trying to better address the coexistance of 32 and 64 bit
  Doug> in the 64 bit Itanium environment.

  Doug> Please review the following proposal and respond to the
  Doug> "lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org" and
  Doug> "lsb-discuss@lists.linuxbase.org" mail lists.

When will people learn that for Linux, source compatibility is just as
important as binary compatibility?  For IA-64 Linux, the decision was
made that native libraries go into /lib etc and that legacy libraries
go somewhere else (/usr/i386-*-linux/lib, commonly).

	--david


  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-17 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-17 16:02 [Linux-ia64] PROPOSED: 32/64 bit coexistance Doug Beattie
2001-09-17 16:53 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2001-09-18  8:54 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-09-18  9:03 ` Lenz Grimmer
2001-09-18  9:03 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-09-18  9:12 ` Ulrich Drepper

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