Re: have-lib: ‘additional_libdir’ set to ‘PREFIX/lib64’

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Bruno,

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> You can just as well set CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS manually, then. Recall that
> the --with-PACKAGE-prefix option is merely a shortcut for what can
> be specified by setting CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS appropriately.

Right.

> This will placate the real problem. The real problem is that on a system
> where gcc knows to find 64-bit libraries under /usr/lib64, NixOS will -
> according to what you say - use a different naming convention than what
> the rest of the system does. User confusion is guaranteed.

Well, there’s no /usr, and in fact no /lib nor /lib64 under NixOS.  Each
package has a different prefix, so we end up with
/nix/store/XYZ-PACKAGE/lib.

(Actually, bi-arch support wouldn’t make much sense under Nix’s view of
the world.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.