Re: support install into lib64 directory?

[Roger Leigh <rleigh whinlatter ukfsn org>]

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Jimmy Do <crispyleaves gmail com> writes:

> Thanks for the reply! But is there something that I, as the developer,
> could do to make it more automatic? So that the user can just type:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
>
> and my applet files will be automatically installed into /usr/lib64 or
> /usr/lib depending on whether the user has an x86_64 machine?

No.  You can't sensibly detect the target platform and make the
decision.  If you want it automatic, you don't want a biarch system;
you want a pure 64-bit or pure 32-bit system rather than a hybrid.

Biarch is a hack that is currently useful for 32- and 64-bit library
coexistence, used AFAICT only by RedHat and SUSE.  It will be
obsoleted once we have proper multiarch support, which will allow us
to have multiple ABIs supported on a single system, not just two.
Some distributions (e.g. Debian) are never going to support biarch.

http://www.linuxbase.org/~taggart/multiarch.html
http://raw.no/debian/amd64-multiarch-3


Regards,
Roger

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