x86-64 patch 1/2

Jes Sorensen jes@trained-monkey.org
Wed Sep 19 00:33:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

Andreas> The ABI states /lib/ld64.so.1 and I agree, we should change
Andreas> it to /lib64/ld64.so.1.  But why should it be ld-linux.so.2?
Andreas> We could do this change but I'm not convinced.

There might be other UNIX operating systems running on the box at some
point. If you want to be able to support those binaries having os
distinctive names is a win.

Linux on most other architectures has -linux in the name of ld.so.

Cheers
Jes



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