Re: [Chicken-users] If anyone wants an RPM version of Chicken Scheme

[Adam Young]

On 04/10/2010 06:35 PM, Jim Ursetto wrote:
> Hi,
> Out of curiosity what does /usr/lib point to on a Fedora 12 system?

One decision that is was made differently between RedHat and Debian 
based distributions is how to distinguish between 32bit and 64 bit 
libraries. ON as 64 bit Red Hat based system, 32 bit libraries go into 
/usr/lib, and 64bit go into /usr/lib64.  I've done both the Debian and 
Red Hat approaches on this, and think that RH approach leads toi an 
easier time mixing 32 and 64 bit libraries, but at the expense of a 
littel bit of surprise in from time to time.  You don't usually need to 
explicelty set libdir to /usr/lib, but I found that if I didn't, the 
chicken configuration would put stuff into /usr/lib, not /usr/lib64 on 
my system, and things wouldn't work.

The right thing to do in the specfile is, I think, to put a conditional 
aroundthe patch application, but it would probably be better to fix the 
make file.  I'll do a little digging and see if I can make that happen, 
and send in a fix.

> Do you have to specify --libdir=/usr/lib64 when you call "./configure" 
> for every single package?
>
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Adam Young wrote:
>
> > I built an RPM version of Chicken Scheme for Fedora 12.  If anyone would
> > care to try it out you can find it at:
> >
> > http://admiyo.fedorapeople.org/chicken/
> >
> >
> > As you can see, I had to make one small patch for x86_64.  This patch
> > should probably not be applied for i386 systems, but I haven't tested
> > it.
> >
> >
> >
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