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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:15:00AM -0500, sergey AT optimaltec.com wrote:
> OK, third time: I strongly object to having support for multilib systems in
> SMGL. We're burdened as it is with custom patches and fixes, this will be 
> one
> more *major* kludge. If my capacity as a grimoire sections maintainer allows
> this, I'd like to call a vote to ban this approach in SMGL.

Sergey,

I'm proposing I apply the bugfixes that fix everything except the 
dynamic loader path from /lib64 to /lib.

They are small fixes that don't do anything non-standard and make the 
basesystem more FHS-compliant.  Where there is possible difference 
between the FHS and the AMD64ABI documents, notably on the dynamic 
linker, I won't apply my patch directly.  I will make it completely 
optional and default to /lib64 which matches the ABI and is _closer_ to 
the LSB (the LSB has its own proprietary linker name though, which we 
won't support -- FHS is a lot more sane).

I'm still not going to work on multi-lib.  This is just so I can have my 
own /lib without a symlink and you don't have to worry about recompiling 
anything since with the symlink the resultant behaviors are identical, 
and without the symlink one can get further on a rebuild with benoit's 
ISO.

Is this good with you Sergey?  Sandalle's already declared multi-lib 
"off-limits" for now, so your vote proposal is probably not needed 
(although there is a draft policy proposal document being written up 
where you may be able to propose to codify such things, but not yet).

Seth

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