Re: Autoconf and 64-bit Systems

[Tom Browder]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> According to Tom Browder on 2/3/2009 6:23 AM:
...
>> Aha!  So I, as a user, can do that even if they don't.  So I should
>> put in my site file (taken from the autoconf manual, para.14.8):
>>
>>   test "$libdir" = NONE && libdir=${prefix}/lib64
>>
>> Correct?
>
> Almost.  I'd recommend more quoting, so that you can still change $prefix
> at make time:
>
> test "$libdir" = NONE && libdir='${prefix}/lib64'

So the single quotes prevent expansion when first read?  Then the test
is referred to later in the game--is that what is happening?

-Tom