* Graham Anderson <graham.anderson@gmail.com> [2012-08-06 00:31]:
On Sunday 05 Aug 2012 16:18:49 Guido Berhoerster wrote:
Do you have any references for that? As far as I'm aware IRIX was the only commercial Unix to use */lib64 and this subsequently became a linuxism.
I think this is incorrect, also I'm sure most of the nice SGI decks and boxes of the day were using MIPS archs.
It is correct, IRIX 6 supported both 64 and 32-bit (of course on mips3/4) and apparently set a bad precedent for Linux. The Point is that other Unix variants solved this in a smarter way around the same time and now even a significant portion of Linux in form of Debian and its derivatives is finally moving towards such a solution [*]. * http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/TheCaseForMultiarch -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org