On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:19, Atwood, Robert C wrote: > > I had a similar problem with a vendor-installed SUSE distribution, quite > a number of 32 bit libraries were missing, or, more confusingly, not > linked in the usual way , ie I might have /usr/lib/libfoo.c.2.1.4 and > /usr/lib/libfoo.c.2 --> libfoo.c.2.1.4 but no libfoo.c , I've no idea > the rational for this , perhaps the vendor just did something wrong on > installing -- but I guess they probably did the default. > Fedora doesn't do so either. The rationale is probably, that the 32-bit libs are not intended to be linked against, because the corresponding header files have not been proven to be model agnostic.
