DJ Lucas wrote:
That symlink dates back to when 64bit Linux was first introduced to LFS, and made a good deal of sense at the time. The toolchain used to be a PITA WRT changing the default lib search paths. Not so much anymore. We should probably take a look at that on next release cycle, make sure lib is preferred, maybe even drop /lib64 completely, even if we don't kill the compatibility symlink (which I'd personally like to see go).
I wouldn't mind seeing the /lib64 symliks go, but I'm not sure packages would install properly. I think thy would just create the lib64 directories and lead to some files in /lib and others in /lib64 even though all the libraries are for 64-bit systems. This would need to be tested.
Note that we create similar symlinks in /opt/xorg. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
