* Andrea Bolognani:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 08:19:41AM GMT, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 02:21:56PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> > > What cases aren't covered by the symlink?  We have a full, working
>> > > Fedora/RISC-V distro using it at the moment.
>> >
>> > The symbolic link isn't in the buildroot.
>>
>> This is indeed a problem.  The symlink should be moved from glibc to
>> filesystem.  I don't know why we put it in glibc, historical anomaly I
>> guess.  I'll prepare a couple of PRs today which will have to be
>> carefully pushed in a single side tag to fix this.
>
> Shouldn't the symlink point in the opposite direction anyway?
> /usr/lib64/lp64d is the actual canonical path, /usr/lib64 is just for
> compatibility.
>
> Though apparently (see elsewhere in the thread) Gentoo does it this
> way too, so maybe there's something I'm missing that makes the
> current direction more desirable.

It's simply not possible to have a symbolic link in the other direction.

Thanks,
Florian
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