RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul  8 22:04, Charles Wilson wrote:
> strings ld.exe shows the following:
> 
> SEARCH_DIR("/usr/i686-cygwin/lib"); SEARCH_DIR("/usr/lib");
> SEARCH_DIR("/usr/lib/w32api");
> [...]
> FWIW, on  linux64 (fedora 15) I see this:
> 
> SEARCH_DIR("/usr/i386-redhat-linux/lib"); SEARCH_DIR("/usr/lib64");
> SEARCH_DIR("/usr/local/lib"); SEARCH_DIR("/lib"); SEARCH_DIR("/usr/lib");

That's that.  But that doesn't explain how we can convine ld to prepend
the relative path to ../lib{64}.  And how to make this decision
conditional.

FWIW, `strings /bin/ls' on a 64 bit Linux shows these bindings:

  libselinux.so.1
  librt.so.1
  libcap.so.2
  libacl.so.1
  libc.so.6
  libdl.so.2
  /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
  libpthread.so.0
  libattr.so.1

So, how did it happen that /lib64 is prepended to ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,
but all other libs are just plain filenames?  Maybe that gives us some
clue how to do it in Cygwin.


Corinna

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