> > The other thing that puzzles me: In an X86_64 system, I would expect to > > find the libsensor libraries in a the /lib64 directory, but they actually > > get installed in /usr/local/lib. What must I do to get these libraries > > in the proper place ? > > # You should not need to change this. It is the directory into which the > > # library files (both static and shared) will be installed. > > LIBDIR := $(PREFIX)/lib > > maybe you can change this to lib64 so the dir will be /usr/local/lib64 but I > dont know if such directory can exist. I can't get why some distributions invented these lib64 directories. On 32-bit systems we have lib, not lib32, so why make it different on 64-bit systems? It may make sense to have a lib32 directory on 64-bit systems for libraries which are only available in 32-bit format, Gentoo is doing it almost this way (lib is a link to lib64, and there is lib32 for the 32-bit libraries), but doing it the other way around sounds weird to me. However if most distributions do that... Maybe we should detect 64-bit systems and change the default in this case. Anyone wants to give it a try? At any rate, nothing will break if you install your 64-bit libsensors.so under /usr/local/lib, I'm doing this and it works just fine. I wonder why you are installing it by yourself, rather that using the suse package which would put everything in the right place for you? > You may also change the PREFIX to / to get it to /lib64 if you like. (all in top > Makefile) This would be a very bad idea. /lib (and /lib64) are meant for libraries fundamental to the system, libsensors sure doesn't qualify. -- Jean Delvare
