Re: Placement of 64-bit libraries (offtopic) - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Placement of 64-bit libraries (offtopic)
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Msg-id 20060613161150.GJ8588@kenobi.snowman.net
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In response to Placement of 64-bit libraries (offtopic)  ("Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>)
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* 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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