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Re: Problem building gcc-4.2.2 on 64-bit ubuntu linux
>Ubuntu decided to find a 64- vs 32- bit setup incompatible with
>predecessor distros. Presumably, there is an ubuntu patch set for this,
>but it's quite inconvenient that they chose to break the scheme chosen
>by their predecessors. The scheme chosen by everyone else is to put the
>64-bit stuff in /usr/lib64, and the 32-bit stuff in /usr/lib. Pretty
>much the kind of mess Bill Gates wanted to see the alternatives get into.
Actually I'd have preferred something similar on Windows than the even
messier 64bit stuff in Windows\System32 and the 32bit stuff in
Windows\SystemWoW64. Logical, isn't it?
Sorry for not contributing something substantial.
bye Fabi