On Thursday 05 April 2012 09:30:23 Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 07:09:46 -0500 Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > Fedora does use /lib64 on x86_64 I would personally prefer /libhfp but
> > wouldn't object to /libhf  though today we have f17 about to go beta
> > and all of rawhide built using /lib
> 
>   One potential problem that is born from the /libhf suggestion is the
> danger of having a new top level directory (/libhf) with only one file,
> the dynamic linker. AFAIU it, no distro is currently willing to move away
> from its existing scheme (/lib)

i don't think that's true.  on an x86_64 system, the 64bit libs are in 
/lib64/.  some distros tried to (pointlessly imo) resist and force 64bits into 
/lib/ when the native ABI was x86_64 (Gentoo included), but those are legacy 
imo, and afaik, they didn't break the ldso paths.

so in a setup that only has hardfloat binaries, you'd have all the libs in 
/libhf/, not just the ldso.

> Loic suggested a -IMHO- better solution: to change the dynamic linker
> filename, not the dir, i.e. /lib/ld-linux-hf.so.3 (for this particular
> case).

the implication in supporting both hardfloat and softfloat simultaneously is 
that you'd could have them both installed.  thus putting them both in /lib/ 
doesn't make much sense if you're still going to need /libhf/ to hold 
everything else.
-mike