Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit binaries?

[Alexander Sack]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> On Friday 24 October 2008 23:20:59 Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> >this will make system trying to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit program. it
>> >can't work
>>
>> rtld shouldn't attempt to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit programs.
>
> The same problem happens with the Linux run time linker - it merrily tries to
> link FreeBSD libraries to Linux binaries with predictable results..
>
> One trick I use for that is to put a symlink in /compat/linux in the place the
> problematic FreeBSD library is..
>
> That said it would be really nice if it ignored incompatible libraries :)

Yea.  Also you go tot realize that if it didn't pick up /usr/lib32
shared objects then /lib would be searched as a last resort I believe
since its the default path.  As a result, things again would have just
worked.

Is this a bug or not in FreeBSD's rtld?

-aps