On Wednesday 02 July 2008 09:37:55 am Marcus Rueckert wrote: > On 2008-07-02 06:36:41 -0500, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote: > > The following proposed patch for stable 3.1, replaces the configure > > routine that tried to guess the libdir directory by assuming biarch rules > > from fedora linux (breaking all amd64 BSD and x64 Solaris) and overriding > > the libdir parameter passed at configure time (breaking fedora linux > > ppc64). > > > > Contains changes from r1452, r1467, r1468, r1475 and r1487 [...] > i would never ever default libdir to $prefix/lib64. there are linux > distros which default to single arch on x86_64. imho the default should > always be plain $prefix/lib and if the packager/user is on a biarch > system he has to specify --libdir.
It seems most single-arch x86_64 distros have a compatibility symlink from lib to lib64, so it should work fine there too. Granted, yes, this could screw up a few people using single-arch x86_64 distros w/o a lib64 dir, but the failure mode should be obvious, and this probably helps more people than it hurts, since plenty of people building from source on bi-arch x86_64 neglect to pass in --libdir=/usr/lib64 and can wind up with less-than-obvious failure modes. I don't particularly care one way or the other myself, so long as I can pass in the correct libdir via configure, which is always done for rpm builds, of course. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
