Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932350AbVIKOHM (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:07:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932260AbVIKOHL (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:07:11 -0400 Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com ([195.54.107.70]:26524 "EHLO mxfep01.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932280AbVIKOHK (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:07:10 -0400 Message-ID: <43243BDC.7020309@stesmi.com> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:14:52 +0200 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Frost CC: Andi Kleen , Jim Gifford , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Pure 64 bootloaders References: <43228E4E.4050103@jg555.com> <20050911115327.GZ6026@ns.snowman.net> In-Reply-To: <20050911115327.GZ6026@ns.snowman.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira Milter 1.0.7; VAE 6.29.0.5; VDF 6.29.0.100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1400 Lines: 40 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi. >>Jim Gifford writes: >> >>>I have been working on a project to create a Pure 64 bit distro of >>>linux, nothing 32 bit in the system. I can accomplish that with no >> >>Hopefully you're using /lib64 for that, otherwise your >>packages will be incompatible to everybody else and not >>FHS compliant. If you don't please don't submit any >>patches to hardcode this to upstream packages. > > > /lib64 sucks, as mentioned, and I thought FHS only required that the > linker be in /lib64. Thus, the actual libraries could be pretty much > anywhere (as it should be, really). Debian-amd64 uses a symlink from > /lib64 to /lib and provides the 64bit libraries and linker in /lib (but > when actually compiling does link binaries through /lib64 for FHS > compliance). > > Hopefully /lib64, et al, will die and multiarch will happen soon. How exactly would multiarch support work then? // Stefan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDJDvcBrn2kJu9P78RAk9/AJ9KkdDxnqQmRSonntRZBqONlMH2pgCfQpH/ FDhtQSwqDrBzrQUb6/5YeOs= =fEv6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/