http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24766





--- Comment #7 from Chow Loong Jin <[email protected]>  2009-10-27 19:07:18 
PST ---
@Dan Nicholson: Sticking 64-bit libraries into /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib
would require changing Debian's packaging policy as well as every derivative of
Debian's policy to accomodate one library that won't work otherwise.

I'm not actually sure about what the case is like for GStreamer. However, the
approach I am proposing is actually used within Gtk for loading modules which
are usually found in /usr/lib/gtk-2.0 (i.e. it also searches within
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/<GTK_HOST> where GTK_HOST is defined to the $host found from
configure. In fact,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/369498 is what I was
referring to when I came up with the patch.

@Corbin Simpson: The compile time flag --with-dri-driverdir would fail if I set
more than one path there, e.g. /usr/lib/dri:/usr/lib/dri/i486-pc-linux-gnu, and
the LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH environment variable would require that every 64-bit
user running 32-bit OpenGL applications set the environment variable, which is
hardly what I would consider appropriate.


Also, you both were mentioning "changing the defaults". The patch I propose
does not change the defaults, it just adds an extra search path. The original
search path is preserved.

Either way, if you wouldn't mind committing a patch that changes the path via a
configure argument, then I'll just write up a patch that does that instead.


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