From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24938 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2012 17:53:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 24929 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Apr 2012 17:53:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:53:40 +0000 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3CHrHnX007241 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:53:17 -0400 Received: from tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com (tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com [10.16.42.4]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3CHrGH5028408 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:53:16 -0400 Received: from tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com (tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com [127.0.0.1]) by tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3CHrE3D008970; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:53:15 +0200 Received: (from jakub@localhost) by tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q3CHrDLD008968; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:53:13 +0200 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:53:00 -0000 From: Jakub Jelinek To: Mike Frysinger Cc: cross-distro@lists.linaro.org, Riku Voipio , Adam Conrad , linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org, Steve McIntyre , Jeff Law , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, libc-ports@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Phone call (was Re: Armhf dynamic linker path) Message-ID: <20120412175313.GQ16117@tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com> Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek References: <201204100019.13472.vapier@gentoo.org> <20120412074729.GJ16117@tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com> <201204121349.19097.vapier@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201204121349.19097.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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/msg00041.txt.bz2 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 01:49:16PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > ia64 installs in /lib, because it isn't a multilibbed architecture. > > because distros choose not to support it. in first gen chips, there was > hardware support for running x86. so if we were to be strict, there should > have been /libia64/ (or whatever) while the current x86 32bit code would stay > in /lib/. but no distro was interested in supporting that (probably due to > the 32bit x86 layers being balls-ass slow), so it never happened. We even carried patches (not applied) for lib64 ia64 support in our binutils/glibc/gcc for a while, but the final decision after these were written was that it is going to stay in /lib. Jakub