Hi Bruce, Sorry you and others have had to suffer through this.
On Mon 20 Dec 2010 15:09, Bruce Korb <bk...@gnu.org> writes: > How much understanding of the machinery should be expected > of the hapless project builder? I'm not sure, but: > Nelson has been doing this stuff for quite a while and has > reasonably good understanding of the process. From that > understanding, he made the assumption that a standard 64 bit > "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)" > installation would be compatible with installing Guile via > ./configure && make && sudo make install This is incorrect, for RHEL and other systems which place 64-bit libs in $prefix/lib64. You will find hacks to set --libdir in almost all packaging scripts. > Perhaps we can strive to make the assumption correct > in the future? This idea is attractive, if it can be done. But this is more an autoconf issue (setting $libdir) than a libtool issue, and it's not a Guile issue at all :) Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
