Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Binary packaging problems on x86_64

[Larry Doolittle]

Eric -

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:29:13AM -0800, Eric Blossom wrote:
> 
> Seems like putting the native stuff where it's always been
> (${libdir}) would have been an obvious win.

For suitable definition of "native", yes.  I guess the
"problem" that SuSE et al. address with their corruption
of this idea is to let commercial 32-bit binaries (that
reference 32-bit plug-ins in /lib) continue to run unchanged
on x86_64 computers.

> Perhaps it will return to this.

In the proper (Debian) environment, it already has.  ;-)

> Is this summary correct?
> 
> X86_64               64-bit             32-bit
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> SuSE 9.3             ${prefix}/lib64    ${prefix}/lib
> Mandriva 2006        ${prefix}/lib64    ${prefix}/lib
> Gentoo               ${prefix}/lib64    ${prefix}/lib
> Debian Sarge         ${prefix}/lib      <someplace else>
> Debian Sid           ${prefix}/lib      <someplace else>
> NetBSD               ${prefix}/lib      <someplace else>
> 
> I know that ${prefix}/lib* should really be ${libdir}, but I want to
> be clear about the lib vs lib64 part.

The <someplace else> seems to be /emul/ia32-linux/lib on Debian.
I'm not sure, the only 32-bit clutter my Sid x86_64 machine has
picked up is in /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib.  I already filed bug
reports complaining about it.

    - Larry

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