Re: libdir on x86_64

[Bob Proulx]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > Am i supposed to manually set libdir according to build host to get
> > compliance with such constraint ?
> 
> Yes, you can specify --libdir at configure time.  Note for system
> installations you will usually have to set more options, for
> example --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc.  The idea of the GNU coding
> standards is that all packages allow to be configured in this way, so
> that you can adjust all packages to your system specific layout in the
> same way.

And note that not all systems use the biarch model of libdir becoming
lib64.  There are systems where 64-bit is native and the 32-bit flavor
is the guest lib32.  Also there is a multiarch model where the
directories name is lib/arch-os.  The configure script provides a
standard interface used by many different package implementations to
produce the desired filesystem layout.

Bob