On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 08:41:12PM -0600, Chris Bagwell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 10:00 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > > > + $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib # on 32-bit > > distributions > > + $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 # on 64-bit > > distributions > > > > Overall excellent. I have a doubt about the lib64 info. On Ubuntu I have > > always been building > > 64-bit. In fact, 32 bit libs are not present by default when you chose a > > 64-bit version. > > > > If it were required to specify lib64, there would be lots of questions on > > the list. Some would > > pick the wrong lib dir and ask why things aren't working. Is this required > > on some distro? > > > > I help out with sane-backends configure scripts and I noticed that > Fedora patches their "sane-config" (pkg-config-ish script) to do a run > time check and point to different lib paths based on that. > > I've never understood it so it would be interesting to know whats going on > here. can't remember exactly, I just have this vague memory of people building their drivers on 64 bit, then installing it in /usr/lib and complaining that it doesn't work.
but tbh I can't remember if that was with the wacom driver or another driver either, sorry. feel free to take it out of the wiki, if it happens again we can just revert Cheers, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
