Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > Am i supposed to manually set libdir according to build host to get > > compliance with such constraint ? > > Yes, you can specify --libdir at configure time. Note for system > installations you will usually have to set more options, for > example --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc. The idea of the GNU coding > standards is that all packages allow to be configured in this way, so > that you can adjust all packages to your system specific layout in the > same way.
And note that not all systems use the biarch model of libdir becoming lib64. There are systems where 64-bit is native and the 32-bit flavor is the guest lib32. Also there is a multiarch model where the directories name is lib/arch-os. The configure script provides a standard interface used by many different package implementations to produce the desired filesystem layout. Bob
