From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15172 invoked by alias); 5 Apr 2012 15:55:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 15062 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Apr 2012 15:55:12 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_PGP_SIGNED,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,TW_BH,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (HELO smtp.gentoo.org) (140.211.166.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:54:49 +0000 Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7251B4013; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 15:54:48 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger To: Konstantinos Margaritis Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Use different linker path for hardfloat ABI Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:55:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.4.0-rc1; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: cross-distro@lists.linaro.org, Dennis Gilmore , libc-ports@sourceware.org, "gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org" , Richard Earnshaw , "Joseph S. Myers" References: <20120329193401.GA14860@dannf.org> <201204051108.58683.vapier@gentoo.org> <20120405182415.8aaa8b25181e0b46b5f501ef@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <20120405182415.8aaa8b25181e0b46b5f501ef@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4391801.pxzL8o7nG7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201204051155.16655.vapier@gentoo.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact libc-ports-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-ports-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 --nextPart4391801.pxzL8o7nG7 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1533 On Thursday 05 April 2012 11:24:15 Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 11:08:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > 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 64bi= ts > > 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. > >=20 > > so in a setup that only has hardfloat binaries, you'd have all the libs > > in /libhf/, not just the ldso. >=20 > That's exactly my concern. If /libhf is chosen for the dymamic linker pat= h, > but it's not adopted by everyone else for libraries and other files, then > at best you'd have a symlink, at worst a dir with only one file inside. if gcc declares libhf as another multilib target, then everyone else will g= et=20 it automatically note: i don't care about /lib/ld-linux-hf.so.3 or /lib/ld-linux.so.4 or=20 /libhf/ld-linux.so.[34]. /lib// is really the only one i do= n't=20 think doesn't belong. > > the implication in supporting both hardfloat and softfloat simultaneous= ly > > 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. >=20 > That case has only any chance of realization in a multiarch environment > such as Debian/Ubuntu. don't really know what you're talking about here. other distros have no=20 problem with handling multilib. -mike --nextPart4391801.pxzL8o7nG7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-length: 836 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPfcBkAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBUokP/jEt9CPnnSLfTfj/rcWQ/yTr /o3Q3/TLz7IyCtOM6yJDPiPX7SFtChP8GWPKoQIu26S4tyz2WObKfvJ6ODLHbLWy /+6KEj49rExAcKQLeXHuX07PLSf1ftu+hjzs6uHPB6MFXGt/5iPx+rv/YwcZtyYf fG+kwGd5NVxthO74o0dzr/EfdBpPP3YDX/kR3WY0PEK2w96eII4WW5eavszt5iNd nEg99/QIINgosVxLisH2XxbNCvv2BNfkMadcJ1mPgv0HFq+9Ew7fk0pSfR8vO2EH 0zE8K5ra5fj7C+tuA+2DesY8BzAnXlX8gnQi1Uvd+NZDLb5oHgQB7b9uw/UEsaLZ 5CIQoW4uYjRet4Uh9Wa37KVeDXBj6acfq6QnoKYNNQDQ5j21ppGEj2V3r3LAiY+q btUCncgyV6IFezwc677/9kOjrZpEJ7HwtRvx3D02DoYUwSW7HpCEw1oRLUxz9gUi NPo4M8y323WwfI6xPBgyDs7m/sVsdcY6tncL2181Ehrnlc7+1Ux4qJGEXmrNJdFJ kBr/S7lYCy8zfpujSHW5/838cAtZy4VS0+czUXx2ho15/MKxpCPk0FRTo/KPYsZD 7awjWkpI4q0foTTvwW7APo/40VbewPt2qFZpbtkqILOxZEfdiYZ1YZYcforb9UCo wfvcdQjnHZ/NpFgFmLxO =mgZK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4391801.pxzL8o7nG7--