[SR-Users] [sr-dev] library dir for x86_64 - lib or lib64

[Jan Janak]

If you are unsure which way is better, my recommendation would be
follow the Linux Standard Base (LSB). IIRC it recommends using lib64
in this case.

-Jan

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla
<miconda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> iirc this was at some point discussed, however, I want to go through it
> again.
>
> Many x86_64 distros expect libraries to be placed under a lib64 directory.
> For example the RPM spec file language returns /usr/lib64 for %{_libdir}
> variable.
>
> In the master branch I committed a patch that does this detection.
>
> As I saw some people saying that 'lib' should be the default also for
> x86_64, my question is then what do you think we should use?
>
> Using 'lib' will definitely make building rpms fail unless we do a patch
> specific for these distros.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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>
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