[Libreoffice] Platform-specific DLL suffix usefulness

[Caolán McNamara]

On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 18:56 +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:26:30AM +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> > Different DLLPOSTFIX files suggest that at some stage or other it was
> > desirable to be able to have the .sos from different architecture
> > side-by-side in the same dir. Maybe from an era before the separate arch
> > dirs in the solver dir, dunno.
> 
> I vaguely remember someone mentionning a giant file server in Hamburg where
> all binaries where stashed together ...

As an aside, binary extensions can have multiple architectures in them,
but I don't think the per-arch suffixes we use for the internal libFoos
are propagated into the sdk for this purpose, a different arch
identifier is used IIRC.

C.