Fwd: [PATCH] Look for libraries in "lib64" as well as in "lib"

[Anthony Foiani <anthony dot foiani at gmail dot com>]

Sorry, meant to cc this to the list.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anthony Foiani <anthony.foiani@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Look for libraries in "lib64" as well as in "lib"
To: Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@freenet.de>


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@freenet.de> wrote:
> ÂOn 09/29/2010 04:40 PM, Anthony Foiani wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203@freenet.de>
>> Âwrote:
>>
>>> On 09/29/2010 04:32 PM, Anthony Foiani wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fedora x86_64 systems, many libraries are in "lib64" directories,
>>>> not plain old "lib".
>>>>
>>> This patch doesn't make sense: lib64 and lib are not supposed to be
>>> mixed,
>>> but to be mutually exclusive.
>>>
>>> Ralf
>>>
>> Sensible or not, I needed this to get my compilation to complete.
>
> More verbose: Your approach is broken.

Well, my approach is:

./configure --local
make
./ct-ng menuconfig
./ct-ng build
... wait 90 minutes or so ...
Have the build error out.

With this patch, it works.

So either Fedora is broken (which is a fine statement to say, but it's
a pretty widespread distribution), or ct-ng needs to bend a little to
meet these requirements.

Maybe the issue is that ct-ng (or the autotools it's using / the way
it's using system autotools) needs to add the appropriate -mXX flag.

*shrug*

This got me up and running; if the ct-ng community doesn't think that
this is the best way to go, feel free to discard.

Thanks for the comments, regardless, though. Â:)

Regards,
Tony

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