Re: Pure 64 bootloaders

[Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:50:20AM -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
> I guess I see 5 choices:

6.

> #1:
> Use lib for whatever the standard os/arch size is.
> 
> Use lib32 for the non-standard size.

And what happens for machines with more than one 32 and one 64bit ABI?

> #2: 
> Continue the current mess.
> 
> #3:
> Use both lib32 and lib64 and maybe put a link from lib to the
> default one, probably lib64.
> 
> #4:
> Use both lib32 and lib64 and don't put a link.
> 
> #5:
> Designate the bit size in the name of the lib, ie libc.so64 or
> libc.so32 or something similar and put them all in the same
> directory and let the lib loading code take care of finding the
> correct size.

#6:
Use /lib/$arch-$os or similar and forgot about /lib/*.so.

Bastian

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