On Wednesday 11 April 2012 03:37:56 Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:01:47 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
one of the downsides of traveling down a path and upstreaming as an after thought
You didn't really follow arm hardfloat progress in the past 2 years, did you (if you did you'd already be aware of attempts to get this thing upstreamed for more than a year).
i've only started following arm again as my last job (of 5+ years) was largely Blackfin related
Honestly, I'm curious, are you speaking your personal opinion or on behalf of Gentoo? If the former then consider that we're trying to get consensus amongst distros not people, it's impossible to make everyone happy, but we'd be content to get distro people to agree on a standard.
considering i did the Gentoo/ARM port ~8 years ago and maintain the toolchain on Gentoo for all arches, i have a fairly big incentive to keep things clean.
proposing it. So, I guess something like:
/lib/ld-arm-linux-gnueabhif.so.3
or using the ABI name:
/lib/ld-linux-aapcs-vfp.so.3
are the most likely candidates to be agreed by most distros, at least as I see it.
i can let the fine wording of the tuple in the filename be hammered out by others. if we don't care about multilib, then /lib/ is fine, and as long is it isn't crowed by subdir-cruft (i.e. /lib/<tuple>/), then i'm happy.
side note: you really need to fix your mailer. the lack of proper wrapping is obnoxious. -mike