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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: default $(libdir) and bi-arch systems |
Date: | Tue, 9 Sep 2008 23:38:20 -0500 (CDT) |
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Yes, I agree that there are more than just Linux and Solaris scenarios that would be worth supporting, if it is easy to maintain.The fundamental oversight in this proposal is the desire to wanting to distinguish 64bit and 32bit systems. multilibing actually is about supporting several ABIs in parallel. 64/32 bit ABIs on Linux actually are a very special case.
Right. There is also value to separate between some libraries which use the same ABI but with different run-time behavior. For example, libraries instrumented for profiling could go in a different directory.
Some of the available libraries might not even run on the current CPU and operating system type, but could be used to create a build which runs on a different CPU and operating system type. OS-X fat binaries come to mind.
There is no shortage of reasons to want to put libraries in different directories and autoconf/libtool should not stand in the way of freedom.
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