Re: --enable-libsuffix=64: where/how it is used ?

[Bob Proulx]

Yasunari Tosa wrote:
> I have a project which is not aware of x86_64.  
> I want to modify the project so that it will install lib in 
> ${exec_prefix}/lib64.
> I tried configure with --enable-libsuffix=64 and libdir did not change.
> 
> Can you tell how I can do this?

I would use the --libdir option and set the full path that way.  For
your system it sounds like you would want this.

  ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64

Let me take a moment to note that the current state of multiarch is in
a state of change.  Different distributions do it differently.  The
old FHS method of lib32 and lib64 is not good enough for many reasons.
I prefer the proposed methods under discussion and development here.

  http://www.linuxbase.org/~taggart/multiarch.html

At some time in the future the configure line might be this.

  ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux

Bob