This is my late response.

In message <20011226165833.B3231@wasabisystems.com>
	on Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:58:33 +1100,
	Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
> A few (probably subjective :) reasons:
> 
> 	- Why create /libexec just to contain ld.*so ?
Since libexec stands for "system daemons & system utilities (executed
by other programs)".  ("executed by other programs" is a point.)

> 	- SVR4 has ld.*so in /lib (which is actually /usr/lib), as
> 	  well as /etc/lib (for some programs in /)
SVR4's path policy is historical mixture of 4.2BSD, SVR and others.
So, I don't feel it based on consistent philosophy.

> 	- Linux has ld.*so in /lib 
More over.

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Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>