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[sergey AT optimaltec.com]

Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:

> > > I'm proposing I apply the bugfixes that fix everything except the
> > > dynamic loader path from /lib64 to /lib.
> >
> > Well, to me nothing appears to be broken in devel grimoire right now. I
> don't
> > disagree as much now that we're over the multilib question, but I still
> don't
> > get why this is necessary, from technical perspective.
>
> From a technical perspective, it's not necessary unless you want to
> avoid the symlink.  I suppose not using the symlink is also faster on
> loading libraries as well (very negligible), though it would slow down
> the ld loader lookup since that would be through a symlink, but this
> latter effect is made optional as described below.

Not so: lib64 is never mentioned in /etc/ld.so.conf on my machine, neither is
/usr/lib64. That's why I think this whole thing is kind of... low-yield.