[FHS] helper scripts location

Miloslav Trmač mitr at volny.cz
Mon Jun 13 15:41:25 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 13.06.11 14:27, Matthew Garrett (mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org) wrote:
>> It's a directory for arch-dependent stuff that should only exist once on
>> a system, whereas lib is for arch-dependent stuff that may exist for
>> multiple architectures on one system. I have no opinion on whether that
>> distinction is important.
>
> That is not really how it is. /lib is for arch-dependent stuff including
> the libraries of the primary arch. Libraries for secondary archs are
> then put in /usr/lib{64,arch}/.

On x86_64 the 64-bit arch is primary and the 32-bit arch is secondary.
 Surely the 32-bit files don't belong to /usr/lib64?
   Mirek


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