PATCH: ldconfig.c considers ld.so.conf entries before/lib,/usr/lib

[Andreas Jaeger]

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

>>From my understanding in this case, the ones in /usr/lib/ are generic
> compiled, and from a different source. The special libraries installed
> are optimized from another source, and do not work on all CPU's. Since
> the optimized libs only override certain parts of the package that
> supplies the main library (i.e. only runtime changes, and not linkable
> objects, and not binaries), the packages have to live together, and not
> overwrite each other.

If you have a library that only runs on e.g. i686, put it into
/lib/i686/.  There're already ways in glibc to handle this stuff.

Andreas
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