12 Apr
2012
12 Apr
'12
5:53 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 01:49:16PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
ia64 installs in /lib, because it isn't a multilibbed architecture.
because distros choose not to support it. in first gen chips, there was hardware support for running x86. so if we were to be strict, there should have been /libia64/ (or whatever) while the current x86 32bit code would stay in /lib/. but no distro was interested in supporting that (probably due to the 32bit x86 layers being balls-ass slow), so it never happened.
We even carried patches (not applied) for lib64 ia64 support in our binutils/glibc/gcc for a while, but the final decision after these were written was that it is going to stay in /lib.
Jakub