Jesse Becker wrote: > 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. > > Actually, the FHS does go further though:
- on many other architectures, lib64 is also expected, e.g. PPC64, s390x, sparc64 - however, on ia64, lib64 should NOT be used (what does RHEL do on ia64?) Maybe a specific autoconf macro is needed to encapsulate the FHS requirements and the real-world variations between platforms. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
