On 9 September 2014 11:10, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/09/2014 06:57 PM, Shaun Jackman wrote: >> Hi. I compiled gcc with --disable-multilib on an x86-64 system and >> expected GCC libraries to be installed in $prefix/lib, but found them >> instead installed in $prefix/lib64. > > That's right: it's the standard place for 64-bit x86-64 libraries. > >> Is there a configure option to >> override this behaviour and install libraries in $prefix/lib? If not, >> should simply moving the libraries to $prefix/lib work? > > Umm, why would you want to? Hi, Andrew. I understand lib64 has a vital purpose on a multilib system. On a non-multilib system, it seems odd to me to have a populated lib64 directory and an empty lib directory. It's tidier (in my opinion) to just name the directory lib. Most open-source software after `./configure && make install` install libraries into $prefix/lib, not $prefix/lib64. I installed 139 open source packages on this system, and only four packages installed libraries in lib64: gcc, git, libffi and r. To have a system with a consistent directory structure, I'd rather modify those four packages that use lib64 to use lib, rather than modify 135 packages to use lib64. Cheers, Shaun
