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Subject: Re: [PATCH] aarch64: use lib64 as default lib and slib directory
From: Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@gmail.com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, 	Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@linaro.org>, libc-ports@sourceware.org
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On 13 March 2013 16:29, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>
>> > However, there was some recent discussion about this in gcc.
>> >
>> > Jakub, What's the status?
>>
>> No progress there, see the
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-03/msg00288.html
>> thread.  I'd really like to get it resolved before we cut
>> GCC 4.8.0-rc1 this week.
>
> If it does change to /lib64, it would seem odd for the dynamic linker path
> (GLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER in aarch64-linux.) to stay as
> /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 rather than also being in /lib64 (although s390
> also puts the 64-bit dynamic link in /lib).

Changing the location of the linker breaks binaries. I'm not convinced
the disruption associated with that is justified.

/Marcus