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[Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>]

Am Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:36:31 +0200
schrieb Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>: 

> I agree, I never liked the split. And even if a split is done, my
> opinion is that /lib should be the primary location, i.e. if the system
> is 64bit, all libs should go to /lib and compatibilty to /lib32.

I also don't like the split -- and generally found it needed to have /lib64 
as symlink at least for some apps.
I struggled to get rid of it on my audio system and failed, in the end, gave 
up.
Just now looking into /usr/lib64 on my laptop... which is no symlink... and 
what do I see there:

13:04|sunscreen:svn$ ls -l /usr/lib64
insgesamt 10980
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root    4096 21. Apr 16:59 ardour2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7542480 27. Apr 15:16 libgfortran.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     980 27. Apr 15:16 libgfortran.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20 27. Apr 15:16 libgfortran.so -> 
libgfortran.so.3.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20 27. Apr 15:16 libgfortran.so.3 -> 
libgfortran.so.3.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3673714 27. Apr 15:16 libgfortran.so.3.0.0

Now that is even related to the initial topic of the discussion, ain't it?

Another issue I have just now with the multilib question is that the virtual 
box build insists on that:

Checking for compiler.h: compiler.h not found, OK.
Checking for 32-bit support: 
  Cannot compile 32-bit applications (missing headers and/or libraries)!
  Check the file /usr/src/VirtualBox-3.0.0_OSE/configure.log for detailed 
error information.
 ! Problem Detected ! 
Creating compile log /var/log/sorcery/compile/virtualbox-3.0.0.bz2 

I would like to test virtual box since qemu/kvm seems to be utterly broken 
currently with most current Linux live CD ISOs, somehow... but it does not 
work without multilib.
That may be related to the fact that _everyone_ else _does_ multilib:-( Even 
Solaris/x86 does this.
And: Everyone has the 32bit stuff as default in /lib, plus a lib64 dir. So 
whatever the standard says there about native libs... the real world differs.


Alrighty then,

Thomas.

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