On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 09:17:39PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 9/24/06, Arnie Stender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the reason you want to install into lib by default is ease. > Any stupid packages are just going to install into lib by default, so > you've got that covered by making that your default library directory. > The smart ones will find out from libtool (or some other means) where > they should be installing their libraries. So, building a straight 64 > bit system can be less painful if you let the libraries go to lib by > default. Multilib systems seems to have a much more daunting task of > making the packages DTRT. > Absolutely, although there are always exceptions (popt-1.10, and to some extent Mesa, are all I can think of at the moment) which are overkeen on using lib64. Actually, the Mesa is puzzling unless Arnie specified x86_64 as the target - for me it fails to compile on the linux-dri target on pure64 unless I sed out some obscure drivers.
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