On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:02, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.com.au> wrote: > 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?)
I'm not sure (but may be able to find out if it really matters). I *suspect* that it just uses /lib. On ia64 systems, there is no (or at least "less") expectation of ever running 32bit code. Yes, yes, there are emulators and such, but that is a special case. This is as opposed to x86_64 systems where there is both the ability and expectation that 32bit and 64bit code will coexist. > Maybe a specific autoconf macro is needed to encapsulate the FHS > requirements and the real-world variations between platforms. Possibly. I would not be surprised if something like this already exists; we can't be the first project to deal with this problem. -- Jesse Becker Every cloud has a silver lining, except for the mushroom-shaped ones, which come lined with strontium-90. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
