Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote:
>> If this already was discussed then sorry for the noise:
>>
>> What is the rationale for merging lib32 with lib?
>> Wouldn't it be somewhat cleaner to have a completely
>> split structure
>>
>> lib64
>> lib32
>> libx32 (possibly)
>> lib
>
> Here are a couple of reasons:
>
> 1. Other distros (notably Red Hat and Fedora) put 32-bit libs in "lib".
According to bug 506276, Debian has instead merged 64-bit to lib.
So it seems to me that there is no "mainstream" to follow.
Perhaps striving for the cleanest solution would be the best?
> 2. The path to the 32-bit runtime linker (/lib/ld-linux.so.2) is
> hard-coded in every x86 binary on your system.
I am afraid that these must stay exceptional in any case:
Also currently, gentoo (and if I understood correctly, also Debian
and Red Hat) has the possible ld-linux{,-x86-64,-x32}.so.2 symlinks
in _all_ /lib* directories; I suppose that this is not intended to
change. (I assume that a change might break some proprietary binaries
which might have hard-coded the "wrong" directory.)
