Re: About libdir for 64-bit

[Russ Allbery]

Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:

> Right, but it suffers from the same limitations as Sergei's approach.

> If you'd want to have a better guess, you have to apply some magic
> examining the multilib subdir involving compiler internals, e.g.
> gcc --print-multi-os

You have to decide what you're trying to accomplish.

My goal was to handle a few common cases in a relatively safe way to
reduce the number of places where the user has to use --libdir.  I think
it accomplishes that.  Completely eliminating the need for the user to
ever use --libdir to set the installation path is a much harder (possibly
impossible) problem.

Anyway, Works For Me.  People can certainly do more work if they want, or
come up with other solutions, or just bail and ask the user to always use
--libdir.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>