Am Dienstag, 30. April 2024, 19:00:33 +11 schrieb Andrea Bolognani: > > Shouldn't the symlink point in the opposite direction anyway? > /usr/lib64/lp64d is the actual canonical path, /usr/lib64 is just for > compatibility. > > Though apparently (see elsewhere in the thread) Gentoo does it this > way too, so maybe there's something I'm missing that makes the > current direction more desirable. > Apart from certain difficulties in implementing that (as Florian said), telling upstream build systems to install their libraries into /usr/lib64/lp64d breaks too many (wrong) assumptions (of the library directory being one dir level under /usr). We tried and had some surprises. Obviously these are upstream bugs in various packages. I don't remember the details anymore, sorry. Explaining the RISC-V directory structure to people back then was somewhat painful. Today it might be easier. -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfridge@xxxxxxxxxx Gentoo Linux developer (council, comrel, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Dilfridge
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
-- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
