Re: Pure 64 bootloaders

[Stefan Smietanowski]

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Hi.

>>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.

How exactly would multiarch support work then?

// Stefan
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