Multilib and Linux.

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 20, 1999, hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) wrote:

>> 
> Also are you suggesting for any library directory, /foo/bar/lib, we
> have /foo/bar/lib for 32bit and /foo/bar/lib64 for 64bit?

That's what SGI has done on IRIX6: there's /lib32, /lib (n32) and
/lib64.  A compiler/linker switch (-32, -n32 or -64) selects one ABI
and uses the corresponding set of library directories.  The linker
refuses to link together objects and libraries of different ABIs.

> It looks like more than one Linux targets which have to deal with
> 32bit/64bit ABIs. We should have a common strategy to deal with
> all those issues. Should we create a mailing list for it?

This is something libtool could help with.

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