Re: have-lib: ‘additional_libdir’ set to ‘PREFIX/lib64’

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/20/2010 06:06 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > >  (Actually, bi-arch support wouldn’t make much sense under Nix’s view of
> > >  the world.)
> >
> >  Why not?  What doesn't make sense is the /lib and /lib64 distinction,
> >  but you could certainly have a nix flag that says which arch to build
> >  for.
>
> Oh yes, that’s something Nix(OS) supports: one can build for
> i686-linux-gnu on x86_64-linux-gnu.  But it’s different from what’s
> commonly referred to as “multilib support”.

So I don't understand what you meant by "bi-arch" support.

More precisely, what may not make sense in Nix is the /lib and /lib64 
distinction _in the store_.  But in an installed system, you could have 
/lib and /lib64 paths (or /lib and /lib32) for the user's consumption, 
just like in every other distribution.

Paolo