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Hi Guy,
Am 03.08.2021 um 09:26 schrieb Guy Harris <ghar...@sonic.net>:
> On Aug 3, 2021, at 12:07 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <d...@opencsw.org> wrote:
>
>> The /64 suffix in bin/ and lib/ is a symlink to the respective architecture
>> and simplifies cross-platform build between Sparc and x86.
>
> For whatever reason, /usr/bin/64 isn't present on my Solaris 11.3 (x86-64) VM:
>
> solaris11$ ls /usr/bin/64
> /usr/bin/64: No such file or directory
> solaris11$ uname -a
> SunOS solaris11 5.11 11.3 i86pc i386 i86pc
>
> The same is true of the directory containing the installed-from-IPS gcc:
>
> solaris11$ which gcc
> /usr/ccs/bin/gcc
> solaris11$ ls /usr/ccs/bin/64
> /usr/ccs/bin/64: No such file or directory
>
> and Sun/Oracle C:
>
> solaris11$ which cc
> /opt/developerstudio12.5/bin/cc
> solaris11$ ls /opt/developerstudio12.5/bin/64/cc
> /opt/developerstudio12.5/bin/64/cc: No such file or directory
>
> Sun/Oracle don't appear to have made as vigorous an effort to make this work
> as OpenCSW have.
The reason is probably that it is usually not important if you use the 32 or 64
bit
binary - you just want the one that is suitable which was historically done by
hardlinking the name to isaexec searching to ISAs from most to least optimal
or linker ISA features nowadays. This is obviously not the case for *-config
where you want exactly 32 or 64 bit depending on your build ISA. To make things
worse Solaris 11 has a mixture of 32 and 64 bit binaries in /bin, but again
which
most of the time does not make a difference.
Best regards
— Dago
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and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
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