Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes:
> You can just as well set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS manually, then. Recall that > the --with-PACKAGE-prefix option is merely a shortcut for what can > be specified by setting CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS appropriately. Right. > This will placate the real problem. The real problem is that on a system > where gcc knows to find 64-bit libraries under /usr/lib64, NixOS will - > according to what you say - use a different naming convention than what > the rest of the system does. User confusion is guaranteed. Well, there’s no /usr, and in fact no /lib nor /lib64 under NixOS. Each package has a different prefix, so we end up with /nix/store/XYZ-PACKAGE/lib. (Actually, bi-arch support wouldn’t make much sense under Nix’s view of the world.) Thanks, Ludo’.
