From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43D11F96.3050406@lanl.gov> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:36:22 -0700 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) MIME-Version: 1.0 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 ... References: <43CFD24B.5010007@lanl.gov> <775b8d190601191428k8329b69ibe96d9ebebeaffec@mail.gmail.com> <9ab217670601200358n36c0ebe0p@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60601200933r3c5ea53at8eb24c5501dea579@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60601200933r3c5ea53at8eb24c5501dea579@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: e17b4548-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 David Leimbach wrote: > On 1/20/06, Devon H. O'Dell 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