Re: Pure 64 bootloaders

[Stephen Frost]

* Andi Kleen (ak@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> Jim Gifford <maillist@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

	Thanks,

		Stephen

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