On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 03:28:41PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 02:46:39PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 03:11:01PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > > >> perf hardcodes $libdir to be lib for all but x86_64, so kludge around it > > >> until upstream gets their act together. > > > > > > Did you post this upstream too? > > > > Read later in the thread. He said he wants to come up with something > > better for upstream. > > I saw the part about 'dreaming up something better' and figured if a > couple of beers can't conjure up an idea, Kyle would move on to more > exciting things. :-p > > I figured if he poked upstream about it, they might be able to fix it > faster. > > Regardless, I poked Jiri Olsa about it and he isn't familar enough with > multilib to know how to fix it correctly. There isn't some doc floating > around with best multilib practices or something is there? > Well, the canonical answer would be to stop trying to poorly reinvent something awful, ie: autoconf, which already allows distros to set all this stuff in a standard way... For example, the stuff in /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros:%configure which lets us muck with $libdir and jazz. libdir is really the only thing with variation across distros that can't be handled in other ways, since the paths get hardcoded. --Kyle _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
