Jakub Jelinek writes: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:33:13PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: > > Programs like 'gcj-dbtool' and 'gij' are linked against a specific > > libgcj.so. If there is only one set of binaries, then it seems like > > we don't need to bother with multilib at all, since it will only ever > > be possible to use one particular libgcj.so -- the one 'gij' is linked > > to. At least, that is true in the common case... e.g., eclipse, which > > in the end invokes 'gij' at startup. > > > > Or am I missing some magic that lets us pick libraries at runtime? > > I don't know how this could work, but I'm ready to be enlightened :-) > > What prevents other programs to use libgcj.so (or now that there is > libgij.so also libgij.so)? Nothing. > And when they do, you don't know if those programs will be 32-bit or > 64-bit. I don't understand purpose of this comment. If there's a 32-bit multilib, the user will use -m32 at compile time, and that will link with the 32-bit library. Andrew.
