Removing /usr/lib32 on AMD64
Jeremy Chadwick
koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 14 08:51:25 UTC 2008
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:34:26AM +0200, Morgan Wesström wrote:
> Thanks for your answer Jeremy :-)
>
>> What you've documented above is the Correct Way(tm) to remove lib32
>> support. Though I advocate people not install it in the first place,
>> unless they absolutely need it.
>
> I'm not sure I was ever given the option to deselect it during
> sysinstall.
I don't remember if 7.0-RELEASE sysinstall lists it, but I know
7.0-STABLE does.
> I don't rememeber any obvious question at least and
> /etc/src.conf did not exist efter install.
What relevancy does this have to sysinstall? Nothing during sysinstall
touches src.conf. Every FreeBSD system will be missing /etc/src.conf
after an install; the same goes for /etc/make.conf. It's normal.
>> The message from /etc/rc.d/ldconfig you see there about 32-bit
>> compatibility ldconfig path is fine -- it shows an empty path, which is
>> correct. Nothing to worry about there.
>
> There are references in ldconfig to a couple of options I find in
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf
>
> ldconfig32_paths="/usr/lib32" # 32-bit compatibility shared library
> ldconfig_local32_dirs="/usr/local/libdata/ldconfig32"
>
> Should I blank those? /usr/local/libdata/ldconfig32 is an empty folder here.
No, do not blank them; they will not be used, as was shown to you by
/etc/rc.d/ldconfig's output not utilising any 32-bit paths. There's no
point in blanking something that won't get used, it'll just confuse
someone who looks at the system or lead them astray.
> There's also a /libexec/ld-elf32.so.1 left, with the same old date as
> the libs, and a symlink from /usr/libexec/ld-elf32.so.1 pointing to it.
> Should I leave them or remove them? They were not mentioned in the diff
> in the bugreport.
You should safely be able to remove those as well, assuming you have
rebuilt/reinstalled world, and rebuilt all of your ports. Otherwise
upon removal, programs utilising ld-elf32.so.1, won't have a valid
ld.so loader, and will fail immediately.
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