Re: libtool problem on system with 32 and 64 bit libraries

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Markus Elfring wrote:

> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
> > The same sort of folks who were involved in developing this standard
> > could help with an architecture rules specification format.
>
> Did you discuss this idea with any software developers before?

Nope.  It just popped into my head. :-)

> How and where should the knowledge about default destination directories
> be stored?

My idea is to put this in one config file at a standard location which 
can include site specific information.  This could include information 
such as special compile/link flags required for a particular 
architecture format and expected subdirectory or library file naming. 
It would list architecture formats which apply for that system.

> Which tools can be safely used to query the desired informations?

I am not aware of any such tools.  Certainly test compiles can be done 
with various flags to see what the compilation tools are capable of, 
but the result might not be suitable for the current system.

Bob
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