On 02/11/2010 12:37 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
Hi, I've been looking over configure.in for the Ganglia project. The project depends on some other libs, and their locations can be specified with configure arguments, for example: --with-libconfuse=/usr/local The original configure.in would then try -L/usr/local/lib However, there are platforms where 64 bit libraries should be in */lib64, e.g. the search for libconfuse should try /usr/local/lib64 on those platforms. My initial solution is to test $host LIB_SUFFIX=lib case $host in x86_64-redhat-linux*) LIB_SUFFIX=lib64 esac but a proper solution
A proper solution is not to try tricks like the one above, but to let the user specify the directory he needs, if he needs special settings.
In most cases he won't have to, because on e.g. on redhat-based systems, /usr/lib64 is in of GCC's default library search path.
needs to test against all the architectures listed in the FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#LIB64 and also know about the non-FHS compliant cases (e.g. Debian) Is anyone aware of macros for doing this and helping me set LIB_SUFFIX correctly for a particular $host?
Seriously, simply not caring about "LIB_SUFFIX"es is the best solution. Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
