On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:33:13PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
Programs like 'gcj-dbtool' and 'gij' are linked against a specific libgcj.so. If there is only one set of binaries, then it seems like we don't need to bother with multilib at all, since it will only ever be possible to use one particular libgcj.so -- the one 'gij' is linked to. At least, that is true in the common case... e.g., eclipse, which in the end invokes 'gij' at startup.
Or am I missing some magic that lets us pick libraries at runtime? I don't know how this could work, but I'm ready to be enlightened :-)
What prevents other programs to use libgcj.so (or now that there is libgij.so also libgij.so)? And when they do, you don't know if those programs will be 32-bit or 64-bit.
Jakub