Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:24:39 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [ru@FreeBSD.org: install32] Message-ID: <200512071124.40319.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <84dead720512070710m722fd73fl2e6a0c23ad75d863@mail.gmail.com> References: <20051207084939.GE63887@ip.net.ua> <200512070915.47287.jhb@freebsd.org> <84dead720512070710m722fd73fl2e6a0c23ad75d863@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 07 December 2005 10:10 am, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> jk> Why not install all 32 bit stuff under /compat/freebsd-i386/?
>
> jb> Maybe put headers in /usr/include32?
>
> /compat/<os>-<version>-<arch>/{bin,lib,include,whatever}/
> is a little more future proof, IMHO.
>
> For example we may want to support various Linux and Solaris
> flavors in addition to FreeBSD/ia32.
Peter has been trying to avoid that for native 32-bit apps on a given 64-bit
platform (such as FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 or ia64 or sparcv8 on
FreeBSD/sparc64). That's why there is /usr/lib32, LD32_LIBRARY_PATH, etc.
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