NightStrike wrote:
On 12/28/07, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dennis Clarke writes:
>
> > Hsieh, Pei-Ying (MED US) writes:
> >
> > > I need to compile gcc from source on a 64 bit linux OS (Ubuntu and
> > > OpenSuSE).
> >
> > x86_64, I guess.
> >
> > > After scanning through the installation procedures and manual, it
> > > is not clear to me how to do this on a 64 bit OS (default seems to
> > > be for 32 bit OS, using -m32). It will be highly appreciated if
> > > you can shed some light on this. Thanks!
> >
> > It's usually configure, make, make install. Debian-derived distros
> > have some patches because they put 64-bit libraries in /lib instead of
> > /lib64, which is where the standard says they should be.
>
> what standard ? An ISO or OpenGroup document somewhere ?
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Originally the x86_64 ABI, later the Linux FHS.
gcc doesn't look in lib64 for the x86_64-pc-mingw32 target. Is this a bug?
This was discussed on fortran@xxxxxxxxxxxx My recollection was an
agreement to switch to the lib64 standard.
