Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-20 Thread Bruce Korb
On 12/19/10 20:40, Noah Lavine wrote: Hello, I am not at all an expert on guile-config, but I will help if I can. Thank you to all who responded. Usually if you have 64-bit libs in lib64, you have to pass --libdir explicitly. We've now concluded that that is, indeed, the answer to the

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bruce Korb wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 03:09:48PM CET: How much understanding of the machinery should be expected of the hapless project builder? I've skimmed most of the conversation in this thread now. The crucial part, I think, is *not* the --libdir setting. Distros usually get

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 08:20:25PM CET: The other crucial part is that libtool doesn't get the sys_lib_search_path_spec and sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec settings right on several distros, introducing such wrong directories itself (not to speak of cross setups). There

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-20 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Bruce, Sorry you and others have had to suffer through this. On Mon 20 Dec 2010 15:09, Bruce Korb bk...@gnu.org writes: How much understanding of the machinery should be expected of the hapless project builder? I'm not sure, but: Nelson has been doing this stuff for quite a while

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-20 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello, When a work subscription to libtool and a home subscription to guile-devel collide... On Mon 20 Dec 2010 05:40, Noah Lavine noah.b.lav...@gmail.com writes: I found the file that pkg-config will be using to give you this information. It is meta/guile-version number.pc in my Guile source

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/20/2010 03:09 PM, Bruce Korb wrote: On 12/19/10 20:40, Noah Lavine wrote: Hello, I am not at all an expert on guile-config, but I will help if I can. Thank you to all who responded. Usually if you have 64-bit libs in lib64, you have to pass --libdir explicitly. We've now concluded

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-19 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, I am not at all an expert on guile-config, but I will help if I can. First of all, as to how guile-config works. At least in the latest git version, it seems to be a thin wrapper for pkg-config. I found the file that pkg-config will be using to give you this information. It is