On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 12:01 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > If they follow the LSB, then they should be using lib64. However, you > can configure the linker any number of ways. I tried to get a patch to > glibc so this path could be determined, but it was rejected. > > http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2008-12/msg00052.html > > I think this is the only reasonable way to proceed, but I suppose that > an existence test would be safe, too: > > sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec="/lib /usr/lib" > case `/usr/bin/file conftest.o` in > *64-bit*) > for dir in /lib64 /usr/lib64; do > test -d $dir && > sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec="$sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec $dir" > done > ;; > esac
Just as a datapoint, my standard ubuntu 64 bit desktop has /lib64 as a symlink to /lib which has 64 bit libraries in it. Cheers, Richard -- Richard Purdie Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
