[oe] [RFC] AMD64 and multilib support

[Stanislav Brabec]

Stanislav Brabec wrote:

> >Next thing is 'libexec' dir. I propose to set it to point to libdir and be 
> >done with that

This is bad, because it forces duplicating of all libexec binaries in
the system.

Imagine that you have a library libfoo for both archs:
/usr/lib/libfoo.so.0 (32 bit)
/usr/lib64/libfoo.so.0 (64 bit)

Now your library needs to call binary ${libexecdir}/libfoo-helper.

If you set libexec to libdir, then you are forced to package libfoo
helper twice. Both do _exactly_ the same:
/usr/lib/libfoo-helper (32 bit instance for 32 bit library)
/usr/lib64/libfoo-helper (64 bit instance for 64 bit library)

libexecdir pointing to prefix/lib is much better:
/usr/lib/libfoo-helper (64 bit instance for both libraries)

Both 32 bit and 64 bit libfoo will use this helper.

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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