Re: About libdir for 64-bit

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 07/16/2013 11:23 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a configure.ac with following:
>
> AS_CASE([$host], [x86_64*|sparc64*|s390x*|ppc64*], [libdir=$prefix/lib64],
> [libdir=$prefix/lib])
>
> I'done it in order to make easy the install of package and choose the
> libdir according to arch. But I've found that I can't override if I run
> ./configure llibdir=/whatever and even distros like Debian put libraries in
> /usr/lib//x86_64-linux-gnu
>
> is there a way to fix it?

Yes. Drop all the magic above and leave setting libdir to the user ;)

Your approach is based on invalid assumptions and lacks generality.

Ralf