Re: [PATCH rebased] kbuild: rpm-pkg: Fix build with non-default MODLIB

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Friday 2023-11-10 18:44, Michal Suchánek wrote:
>> It's a complicated mumble-jumble. Prior art exists as in:
>> 
>>  /opt/vendorThing/bin/...
>>  /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 [host binary]
>>  /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/as [host binary]
>>  /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/as.exe [foreign binary]
>>  /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-2/lib/libprtdiag_psr.so.1 [looks foreign]
>> 
>> The use of suffix-based naming must have been established sometime
>> near the end of the 90s or the start of 2000s as the first biarch
>> Linux distros emerged. Probably in gcc or glibc sources one will find
>> the root of where the use of suffix identifiers like /usr/lib64
>> started. Leaves the question open "why".
>
>That's pretty clear: to be able to install libraries for multiple
>architectures at the same time.

Well, what I tried to express or imply was something like:

“ we could (should?) have used /usr/<triplet>/lib rather than
  /usr/lib<suffixortriplet> all along, because at some point, there *will* be
  someone who wants to provide not only arch-different libraries, but *also*
  arch-different binaries (for whatever reason).