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* Placement of 64-bit libraries (offtopic)
@ 2006-06-13 06:30 Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
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From: Steinar H. Gunderson @ 2006-06-13 06:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-performance
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:44:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> (Personally, if I'd designed it, the libraries would actually live in
> /usr/lib32 and /usr/lib64, and /usr/lib would be a symlink to whichever
> you needed it to be at the moment. Likewise for /usr/bin.)
Actually, there have been plans for doing something like this in Debian for a
while: Let stuff live in /lib/i686-linux-gnu and /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
(lib32 and lib64 doesn't really scale, once you start considering stuff like
"ia64 can emulate hppa"), and adjust paths and symlinks as fit. It's still a
long way to go, though.
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* Re: Placement of 64-bit libraries (offtopic)
@ 2006-06-13 16:11 Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
parent: Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
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From: Stephen Frost @ 2006-06-13 16:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-performance
* Steinar H. Gunderson (sgunderson@bigfoot.com) wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:44:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > (Personally, if I'd designed it, the libraries would actually live in
> > /usr/lib32 and /usr/lib64, and /usr/lib would be a symlink to whichever
> > you needed it to be at the moment. Likewise for /usr/bin.)
>
> Actually, there have been plans for doing something like this in Debian for a
> while: Let stuff live in /lib/i686-linux-gnu and /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> (lib32 and lib64 doesn't really scale, once you start considering stuff like
> "ia64 can emulate hppa"), and adjust paths and symlinks as fit. It's still a
> long way to go, though.
The general feeling is that there won't be support for multiple versions
of a given binary being installed at once though. The proposal Steinar
mentioned is called 'multiarch' and is being discussed with LSB and
other distros too, though I think it did mostly originated with Debian
folks.
Just my 2c.
Thanks,
Stephen
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