On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 10:12 PM Ken Cunningham < ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my PPC Debian world, my 64-bit installation of Debian PPC is quite able > to run 32 bit software. > > Linux does this by putting the libraries into lib64 or lib32 subfolders, > as Linux does not use "Fat binaries". > > So if you go down this road with MacPorts, then presumably that ability > will be lost as there will be only one library folder. > It will be equally fine if everything installs libraries either into lib64 or into lib32. And then /lib just does not exist. The problem is that it is not what happens. And while forcing CMake to comply with /lib is easy, I have no idea how to do that for autotools etc., which usually do not have a dedicated portgroup. But if someone can do it this way, that gonna solve the problem.
