<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 7:12 AM Ken Cunningham <<a href="mailto:ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com">ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Of course, if you over-write 64 bit libs with 32 bit libs of the same name, or vice versa, in the same location, you are just hosed, ldconfig or no ldconfig.<br>
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Which is why linux has the lib32 and lib64 subfolders iin the first place.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If I build something for i386 and something else for x86_64 on macOS (which is technically possible) without knowing what and why I am doing, that won’t work either. Doing silly stuff will bring silly results.</div><div><br></div><div>TBH, I don’t see a meaningful reason why a non-developer would want to build for 32-bit on a 64-bit system (visa versa perhaps is not even possible). On macOS it might make sense on old systems, but why on modern Linux?</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>