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On 6/28/2011 3:33 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:I have always wondered what the cyg*.dll's are doing in /bin. Not being a dll insider..., I may be overlooking something, but maybe it's time to move them over to /usr/lib and then add /usr/lib64, just as on Linux systems.On Jun 28 12:56, Charles Wilson wrote:Which means that the 64bit dlls *must* have a different name, or we can't have coexistence. E.g.
Oops.Oops? It's just a decision to be made, isn't it?...Right, we have to decide -- my point is there isn't an easy answer that will have zero impact on everybody. There are basically three choices:
/bin + /bin64 -- affects $PATH, implicates package naming (*). Also might affect script #! lines, and anything that calls exec*() or spawn() with a full pathname.
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