On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:32, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> A while back, I introduced a patch to configure.in that determines
> whether or not lib directories should be called lib or lib64
>
> This is needed when trying to find things like libconfuse
>
> lib64 is not a universal phenomenon though - it is not the norm on Debian.
>
> However, I note that the Linux FHS does mandate lib64,

I must admit I find this amusing. :-)

> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#LIB64
>
> so I may reverse the logic, the new logic will be to use lib64 on any
> x86_64-*-linux except for those on an exception list (e.g. Debian)

+1 from me.  Using lib64 for 64bit libs is certainly the expected
behavior for the various Red Hat derived distributions.


-- 
Jesse Becker
Every cloud has a silver lining, except for the mushroom-shaped ones,
which come lined with strontium-90.

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