hope not tied to SystemD

Posted Aug 18, 2025 8:02 UTC (Mon) by gdiscry (subscriber, #91125)
In reply to: hope not tied to SystemD by NYKevin
Parent article: Finding a successor to the FHS

The spec says that arch-id in $libdir is an architecture tuple:

The architecture identifier to use is defined on Multiarch Architecture Specifiers (Tuples) list.

The issue is that some distributions do not use that path:

Legacy locations of $libdir are /usr/lib/, /usr/lib64/.

Therefore, systemd-path is currently one way to query the path of $libdir at runtime across distributions that use systemd.

You could also use the first existing directory: