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Re: [PATCH] ARM: Use different linker path for hardfloat ABI


On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 07:09:46 -0500
Dennis Gilmore <dennis@gilmore.net.au> 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/<triplet>, 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).

My 2c.

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Konstantinos Margaritis <konstantinos.margaritis@linaro.org>


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