getting /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on a 64-bit f10 preview install?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, James Wilkinson wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   long story short:  x86-64 f10 preview install on AMD64 laptop.
> > install coldfire cross-compile toolchain, which immediately fails
> > looking for /lib/ld-linux.so.2, which it obviously won't find since
> > the system has /lib64/ld-2.9.so (along with various symlinks).
> >
> >   solution?
>
> Well, on F9,
> $ yum whatprovides /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> reports
>
> glibc-2.8-8.i386 : The GNU libc libraries
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>
>
>
> glibc-2.8-8.i686 : The GNU libc libraries
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>
>
>
> glibc-2.8-3.i386 : The GNU libc libraries
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>
>
>
> glibc-2.8-3.i686 : The GNU libc libraries
> Matched from:
> Filename    : /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>
>
>
> glibc-2.8-8.i386 : The GNU libc libraries
> Matched from:
> Other       : Provides-match: /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>
> I suspect that both the i686 and the i386 will work, and there will be
> little difference between them. The i686 version may be *slightly*
> faster (especially if you have multiple cores).

 so you're suggesting just installing the i[36]86 version of glibc?  i
had considered that, but wasn't sure if that would cause any conflicts
so i was reluctant to test it.  and, based on another commenter here,
i'm not the only person who's run into this, so surely this issue must
have been addressed before, no?

rday
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