Re: [OT] /usr/lib64?? (was: Re: [xml] Patch: installing Python into actual site-packages)

[Sean Chittenden <sean chittenden org>]

> > Libraries for the native OS _should_ reside in /usr/lib.
> > Libraries for non-native binaries _should_ exist in either
> > /usr/compat/[arch] or /usr/local/compat/[arch], where arch ==
> > freebsd_amd64, freebsd_ia64, linux_ia32, etc.
>
> if freebsd has by default only one lib/ under /usr (which doesn't
> sound unreasonable, but make sure you talked to david o'brien, peter
> wemm, etc) then you should just have this, nothing breaks and no
> native amd64 binary ever has to care about other library paths.

FreeBSD uses /usr/compat/ia32 (iirc) to handle this, but does indeed
only have one /usr/lib for natively compiled 64 bit libraries.  -sc

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Sean Chittenden