Hi,

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:11:56PM +0800, YunQiang Su wrote:
> Even more intersting, it                                                      
>  a) has a rpath on /usr/lib                                                   

Which doesn't end up in the .sos, though..

> > > On mips* systems, /usr/lib is defined as place to hold O32
> > > libraries, and /usr/lib32 for N32, and /usr/lib64 is for N64.
> > 
> > That sounds like a mess. Why not propley use multiarch paths for
> > multi-ABI stuff? I'd seriously hope those will repesent different archs?
> The multiarch works well, this bug is about multilib.
> MIPS* is very sad that it have to put multilib(o32) files to /usr/lib
> instead of /usr/libo32

Beisdes that is a reason against multilib stuff, please exaplain me why
this is needed when we have multiarch and can (and should!) decide on one
ABI for one port.

> > That's users on crack though, for that it's /usr/local and always was.
> > 
> > You also get into the same situation with  people overwriting packages' 
> > /usr/lib
> > (or even installing in /usr/local), so this argument is moot.

That's still true, and given your mass bugfiling without any real reason
I am seriously thining about ignoring this "bug" (or should I write
"non-issue"?) for now..

Regards,
 
Rene


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