On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 00:16, David S. Miller wrote: > Ben, don't waste your breath with Albert. > > Based upon my previous experiences with him, he has access to drugs > even Hunter S. Thompson hasn't experimented with.
Be unprofessional if you wish. I've tried to stick to the technical defect: you've forced developers to add special Makefile hacks to support you. There is a 90% fix that won't touch the ABI at all: 1. make -m64 the default, as x86-64 does 2. have the install program detect ELF32 or ELF64 Then when a library author specifies /lib, the install tool converts that to /lib64 or whatever. Allow a --exact-path if you wish. The package tools may need the same changes, for handling packages that aren't created with the install program. Then the warts are restricted to a few installers and the toolchain.