On 04/05/2012 03:30 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 07:09:46 -0500 Dennis Gilmoredennis@gilmore.net.au wrote:
Fedora does use /lib64 on x86_64 I would personally prefer /libhfp but wouldn't object to /libhf though today we have f17 about to go beta and all of rawhide built using /lib
Hi Dennis,
One potential problem that is born from the /libhf suggestion is the danger of having a new top level directory (/libhf) with only one file, the dynamic linker. AFAIU it, no distro is currently willing to move away from its existing scheme (/lib), Debian is most likely not going to, at best there could be a symlink /libhf -> /lib/<triplet>, but that is not solving the problem IMHO. What about other distros, if everyone is going to use a symlink for /libhf, then even suggesting it and relying on new top-level directories to solve the problem is the wrong approach.
Loic suggested a -IMHO- better solution: to change the dynamic linker filename, not the dir, i.e. /lib/ld-linux-hf.so.3 (for this particular case).
Note that Fedora is a moving target and there already was a mentioning¹ of /lib/<triplet> for libraries earlier this year during a developers conference². I am not sure what the current status of that proposal is, but I think it is entirely possible that Fedora may follow the format Debian is using.
Cheers, Niels
¹ see page 5 from this presentation: http://rvokal.fedorapeople.org/devconf2012/harald-A_streamlined_and_fully_co...