From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:53:57 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] PROPOSED: 32/64 bit coexistance Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:02:14 -0600, Doug Beattie 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