Re: GNU Libtool 1.5.8 released.

[Peter O'Gorman]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Tim Mooney wrote:
>
> > Why just Linux?  Isn't this essentially the same issue that the multi-ABI
> > commercial UNIXes have?
>
>
> Seems like it to me.  For example, Solaris puts 64-bit libraries in a 
> 'sparcv9' subdirectory. The 'sparcv7' directory is used for libraries 
> built for older SPARC processor types.  Libraries optimized for 32-bit 
> Ultrasparc are put in the traditional location.

Well, the difference, in my little mind at least, is that the commercial 
unixes can all be identified in libtool using $host, but linux will have the 
same $host regardless of being debian, redhat, suse, etc... So the need 
here, specifically is to identify the directories used by various linux 
distributions, so that adding something which satisfies RedHat (in this 
case), does not break debian.

Peter
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