Will,

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:02:18PM -0400, William Cohen wrote:
> For installation on 64 bit machines the libraries are typically placed in 
> /usr/lib64 rather than /usr/lib. On machines that have both 32-bit and 
> 64-bit code, e.g. x86-64 machine. Having both 32-bit and 64 bit versions go 
> into /usr/lib is a problem, because the .a and .so files are different. The 
> config.mk should be able to place things in the correct directory. There is 
> a Red Hat bug report on this:

I am guessing this odd split is motivated by backward compatibility for
32-bit binaries.

> 
> For the time being I have a quick workaround in the libpfm.spec file for 
> 3.2-0.060621.10 to move the installed directory into the correct place for 
> the generated RPMs. However, this doesn't work too well for development 
> work where libpfm is directly installing the files. Looking how other 
> packages do this they generally use configure to set things up 
> appropriately. Would it be a good idea to have a commandline configure to 
> set this type of thing up for libpfm?
> 

I would prefer if we could get by using $ARCH. But the trick
is to test if the directory exiss first. Would there be a gmake
command to do this?

-- 
-Stephane
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