On Tuesday 10 April 2012 06:42:04 Steve McIntyre wrote: > We understand that not everybody may want or see the need for this for > themselves. We *really* get that. But we want it to be possible for > *us* to do it, and an ultra-important part of that is to have unique > loader paths wherever possible. Hence the discussion over the location > for the arm hard-float linker. We've built our systems using the > multi-arch path as that worked well for us and doesn't hurt anybody > else. There are problems with some of the other options here: > > * /lib/ld-linux.so.3
no one suggested this > * /libhf/ld-linux.so.3 > - it could readily clash with a future hard-float platform; look > how /lib64/* could clash with amd64/ARMv8/ppc64/sparc64 all > populating it in the near future > > * /lib/ld-linux-hf.so.3 > - similar problem so you're saying Debian would never accept any ldso path for any arch on the future possibility that it could collide with another target ? that's a bit unreasonable. > * /lib/ld-linux-$triplet.so.3 > - could work fine, so long as we can agree on triplets kind of a waste of space, and the definition of "triplet" is vague, and in your example here, the word "linux" uselessly appears twice. once the duplicate "linux" word is fixed, i wouldn't fight this. > In Debian and Ubuntu, we have implemented the last one of these three > and it's working fine for us. We had understood that in previous > cross-distro discussions (e.g. at Plumbers last year) there was > agreement on this, but we're now seeing dissent. Ubuntu are expecting > (by the end of this month) to be the first distro to ship a stable > release using the hard-float ABI on ARM, so it's unfortunate that this > argument is happening now. one of the downsides of traveling down a path and upstreaming as an after thought -mike
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