u/DriftCheburek

about /lib64 and /lib

Why /usr/lib64 is separate dir from /usr/lib? Like, if it was a symlink to it then it will be no problem at all to install libs in /usr/lib, just, for example, pkgconfig files would be pointing to ${prefix}/lib64 instead. Are there any drawbacks from doing this?

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u/DriftCheburek — 2 days ago