Re: About libdir for 64-bit

[Thomas Jahns]

Hello,

On 07/16/13 11:23, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> I have a configure.ac with following:
> 
> AS_CASE([$host], [x86_64*|sparc64*|s390x*|ppc64*], [libdir=$prefix/lib64],
> [libdir=$prefix/lib])

how does this work for users having -m32 (gcc) or -q32 (xlc) set in their
compiler flags?

> 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?

I couldn't propose anything. Is there even a method to reliably infer the ABI
from the compiler?

Regards, Thomas
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