On 06/30/2011 10:48 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi all, > > I was looking at the /lib64 folder and wondering what it is really > needed for... It just seems clutter to me on a pure x86_64 system (or > even with a multilib in lib32 folders like we have). As far as I can > tell, most things are perfectly fine without that folder and its two > symlinks. > > I would like some help testing removing this so I can get an idea of > what issues people run into. There is bound to be some software that > makes assumptions about /lib64 in its installation and I would like to > know (a) how widespread that issue is and (b) how hard it is to work > around. > > If you want to try it out, just remove the /lib64 folder (after making > sure it only has symlinks to ld-2.13.so and ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 in it. > Run your system as usual for a while and report any issues you come across. > > Thanks, > Allan > removed and anxious to see results. i DO have mutlilib enabled/used fwiw. JB
