Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

[Peter O'Gorman]

On 12/20/2010 10:54 AM, Bruce Korb wrote:

> If the default build is 64 bit, why does it make sense that the
> default library directory is the 32 bit library?

Because the user may not be building for multiple architectures, in 
which case a default of $prefix/lib for libdir makes perfect sense and 
causes no problems. For example, even though /usr/local/lib64 exists on 
my CentOS system, it is empty, /usr/local/lib is not, but contains only 
64bit libs.

Peter