Re: [PATCH 5/6] ld.so.8: document $PLATFORM and $LIB expansion

Mike Frysinger
2011-10-20T18:16:28Z

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On Thursday 20 October 2011 03:15:38 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> +.B LIB
> +The string \fB$LIB\fR (or equivalently \fB${LIB}\fR) represents
> +the system libraries directory, which is /lib for the native architecture
> +on FHS compliant GNU/Linux systems.

a better description might be something like "$LIB expands to the short libdir
name that glibc was configured to install into". and then refer to it usually
being "/lib" for the native ABI (not architecture) on FHS compliant Linux
systems. man-pages does not use the "GNU/" noise qualification.
-mike

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