Some systems that can run 32-bit and 64-bit executables have lib64 directories alongside lib directories. (You could also imagine any other alternative compilation mode in place of "64".) This requires some adjustments in the PostgreSQL build system.
Currently, when you specify --with-openssl, then configure automatically adds -L/usr/local/ssl/lib to LDFLAGS if that directory exists. This would pick up the wrong directory if you are in 64-bit mode. Analogous behavior exists for --with-krb5 with /usr/athena. I think these default installation directories of OpenSSL and Kerberos are mostly obsolete these days, so I'd rather get rid of that behavior altogether and let people specify the necessary directories with --with-libraries and --with-includes like for any of the other optional packages that PostgreSQL supports. Comments? (Additional lib64 issues exist with Python; I will post about these later.) -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly