On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:34:30PM +1200, Michael Hope wrote: >2012/4/4 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade >> >> I did two ports of Mandriva to armv7. One of my choice to use softfp, >> and another hardfp port to be compatible with other distros. But other >> than a previous armv5 port, there is not much else of Mandriva arm, >> so, it would be "good to have" to be able to run binaries for either >> without resorting to a chroot, and only testing purposes. >> >> Bumping major or calling it ld-linux-foo.so.3 is out of question? > >I suspect /lib/ld-linux-$foo.so.3 would be fine. There's two >questions here though: can the hard float loader have a different path >and, if so, what should it be? We're still working on the first part.
We've previously discussed changing the name or the version number of the linker, but there was a worry that compatibility would be broken. Apparently the Meego folks have released a hard-float system using ld-linux.so.3 and were concerned about this. Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre steve.mcint...@linaro.org <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
