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Re: [PATCH] aarch64: use lib64 as default lib and slib directory
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 04:29:31PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>
> > > However, there was some recent discussion about this in gcc.
> > >
> > > Jakub, What's the status?
> >
> > No progress there, see the
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-03/msg00288.html
> > thread. I'd really like to get it resolved before we cut
> > GCC 4.8.0-rc1 this week.
>
> If it does change to /lib64, it would seem odd for the dynamic linker path
> (GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER in aarch64-linux.) to stay as
> /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 rather than also being in /lib64 (although s390
> also puts the 64-bit dynamic link in /lib).
Sure, it would be more consistent, but if there are strong objections from
the multiarch crowd to that (as have been for arm hfp from what I remember),
we have a precedent for using /lib64 with dynamic linker in /lib.
Jakub