Jakub Jelinek writes:
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)?
Nothing.
And when they do, you don't know if those programs will be 32-bit
or
64-bit.
I don't understand purpose of this comment. If there's a 32-bit
multilib, the user will use -m32 at compile time, and that will link
with the 32-bit library.
Andrew.