On 2 October 2014 at 13:41, Ken Hornstein <[email protected]>wrote:

> >$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nmh --libdir=/usr/local/nmh/lib64
> 
> I'm wondering wy you have --libdir with a lib64 suffix?  We don't ship any
> libraries; the only thing that goes in there are executables.  Which is
> a problem, admittedly; that's why Lyndon wants to move them to libexecdir.
> However, I think that we'll have to stick with mhparam returning libexecdir
> for libdir.

Ken,

The short answer is that since moving to 64 bit OS, I've specified 

--libdir=/usr/local/lib64

for any package I build from source.  Since I put nmh in it's own subdir,
it is only "logical" to make it also lib64

> --Ken

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