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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Maybe it is april fool's after all ...
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:36:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43D11F96.3050406@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60601200933r3c5ea53at8eb24c5501dea579@mail.gmail.com>

David Leimbach wrote:
> On 1/20/06, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>The specific reason many Linuxes do this is for i386 compat on AMD64
>>architectures. It's horribly broken, but is only slightly worse than
>>the way FreeBSD implements it, which is to have /usr/lib32
>>
>>--Devon
>>
> 
> 
> Funny, the linux distros I've used have "/usr/lib64"  SUSE was one
> that used this, but then again, I must admit, I don't use linux
> anywhere near as much as I used to.
>

/usr/lib64 &tc. is very, very common linuxices. I would prefer /usr/lib32.

recompilation is not a common option on linux, which has tons of 
something we don't see much on plan 9: third party software.

ron


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-20 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-19 17:54 Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-19 20:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-19 22:28   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-20 11:58     ` Devon H. O'Dell
2006-01-20 16:08       ` jmk
2006-01-20 16:13         ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-01-20 22:19         ` Paweł Lasek
2006-01-21  4:01           ` jmk
2006-01-21  4:06             ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-21  4:26               ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-21  5:09                 ` jmk
2006-01-21  6:20                   ` uriel
2006-01-21  8:36                     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-21  7:42                       ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-21 13:09                   ` Brantley Coile
2006-01-21 16:37                   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2006-01-21 18:49                     ` Bruce Ellis
2006-01-21 19:43                   ` David Leimbach
2006-01-21 21:13                     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-21 13:11                 ` Brantley Coile
2006-01-20 17:33       ` David Leimbach
2006-01-20 17:36         ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2006-01-20 17:53           ` jmk
2006-01-20 18:10             ` Dave Lukes
2006-01-20 18:38               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-01-21 19:29               ` Marina Brown
2006-01-20 20:14             ` Ronald G Minnich

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