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Re: [PATCH] aarch64: use lib64 as default lib and slib directory
On 03/14/2013 04:46 AM, Marcus Shawcroft wrote:
> 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.
I agree with Marcus. If we don't need to move the dynamic linker then
we shouldn't.
Cheers,
Carlos.