Fwd: Re: lib or lib64?

[Valentin Rusu]

On Saturday 16 February 2013 11:50:22 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Saturday 16 February 2013, Valentin Rusu wrote:
> > On Friday 15 February 2013 21:52:31 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > On Friday 15 February 2013, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> > > > How can I force everything into one place?
> > > 
> > > If you pull a fresh kdelibs, it should now also go into lib64/.
> > > Let me know if it doesn't.
> > 
> > Well, I think that other packagers/distributions tend to put libraries
> > corresponding to the CPU architecture in lib. For exemple, my 64bit
> > archlinux has 64bit libraries in lib and 32bit libraries in lib32. lib64
> > is a symlink to lib. Wouldn't it be simpler to just install libraries to
> > lib instead of lib64? This would be more consistent over time, in my
> > opinion.
> 
> So ArchLinux has /lib64 and /lib32 (or /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib32 ?) and /lib
> (and /usr/lib ?) are symlinks to one of the two ?


$ ls -ld /usr/lib*
drwxr-xr-x 172 root root 122880 Feb 14 22:25 /usr/lib
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root  20480 Feb  9 10:56 /usr/lib32
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      3 Jan 27 08:29 /usr/lib64 -> lib
zamox:/home/valentin/Downloads
$ ls -ld /lib*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 27 08:29 /lib -> usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 27 08:29 /lib64 -> usr/lib
 

> 
> Alex
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