Hi, On 09/09/14 21:04, Shaun Jackman wrote: > 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? > > 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. Sure, but it's nonstandard. You should just do what Debian do, and symlink lib and lib64. > 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. Well, those packages are broken. I'm surprised that there are so many packages out there which still haven't been fixed. Standards exist for a reason. Andrew.
