Re: Autoconf and 64-bit Systems

[Tom Browder]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Peter Breitenlohner ...
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Eric Blake wrote:
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>> According to Tom Browder on 2/3/2009 6:23 AM:
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>>> put in my site file (taken from the autoconf manual, para.14.8):
>>>
>>>  test "$libdir" = NONE && libdir=${prefix}/lib64
>>>
>>> Correct?
>>
>> Almost.  I'd recommend more quoting, so that you can still change $prefix
>> at make time:
>>
>> test "$libdir" = NONE && libdir='${prefix}/lib64'
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> both of you are wrong (at least for Autoconf 2.63).  It ought to be
>
> test "$libdir" = '${exec_prefix}/lib' && libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib64'

Thanks, Peter, I've confirmed that that's the variant that works on my
Centos 5.2 64-bit system.

-Tom