[FHS] helper scripts location

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Tue Jun 14 08:50:24 UTC 2011


On Mon, 13.06.11 11:52, Simo Sorce (simo at redhat.com) wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 17:41 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I thinkLennart is saying that on a 64 bit system they would have to go
> to /usr/lib32

No, there is no /usr/lib32.

Lennart

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