[arch-general] packages installed to /usr/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and x86_64-unknown-uclibc -- broken??

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 14:10:20 and regarding:
>
>> Those packages are not essential to your system. binutils-uclibc and
>> cross-arm-elf-binutils are primarily developer tools.
>>
>
> Yes,
>
>        I loaded them because there are a couple of apps that I want to try and cross
> compile. I guess they are fine where they are, but shouldn't the install
> packages have put them somewhere else?

I don't think so. It's common practice to put cross compilation tools
in non-standard places, so you don't accidentally end up compiling
something on your x86 system for an arm processor.