From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3304 invoked by alias); 5 Apr 2012 14:13:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 3293 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Apr 2012 14:13:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,SPF_HELO_PASS 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, 05 Apr 2012 14:13:17 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q35ECklN024182 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 5 Apr 2012 10:12:47 -0400 Received: from ndevos-laptop.usersys.redhat.com (ovpn-116-54.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.54]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q35EAwPl030702 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 5 Apr 2012 10:11:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4F7DA7F2.1060409@fedoraproject.org> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:13:00 -0000 From: Niels de Vos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120307 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konstantinos Margaritis CC: Dennis Gilmore , libc-ports@sourceware.org, "gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org" , Richard Earnshaw , "Joseph S. Myers" , "cross-distro@lists.linaro.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Use different linker path for hardfloat ABI References: <20120329193401.GA14860@dannf.org> <4F75F2E2.3030909@arm.com> <20120402210653.GC28152@dannf.org> <20120404070946.071e7c45@pegasus.ausil.us> <20120405163023.561469dca6619e31cf7a1d9e@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <20120405163023.561469dca6619e31cf7a1d9e@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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/msg00010.txt.bz2 On 04/05/2012 03:30 PM, 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 > > Hi Dennis, > > 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), Debian is most likely not > going to, at best there could be a symlink /libhf -> /lib/, > but that is not solving the problem IMHO. What about other distros, > if everyone is going to use a symlink for /libhf, then even > suggesting it and relying on new top-level directories to solve the > problem is the wrong approach. > > 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). Note that Fedora is a moving target and there already was a mentioning¹ of /lib/ for libraries earlier this year during a developers conference². I am not sure what the current status of that proposal is, but I think it is entirely possible that Fedora may follow the format Debian is using. Cheers, Niels ¹ see page 5 from this presentation: http://rvokal.fedorapeople.org/devconf2012/harald-A_streamlined_and_fully_compatible_Linux_Files.pdf ² http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2012