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Re: [Nmh-workers] A --prefix friendly install
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heymanj |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] A --prefix friendly install |
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Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:01:28 -0400 |
On 2 October 2014 at 13:41, Ken Hornstein <address@hidden>wrote:
> >$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nmh --libdir=/usr/local/nmh/lib64
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> I'm wondering wy you have --libdir with a lib64 suffix? We don't ship any
> libraries; the only thing that goes in there are executables. Which is
> a problem, admittedly; that's why Lyndon wants to move them to libexecdir.
> However, I think that we'll have to stick with mhparam returning libexecdir
> for libdir.
Ken,
The short answer is that since moving to 64 bit OS, I've specified
--libdir=/usr/local/lib64
for any package I build from source. Since I put nmh in it's own subdir,
it is only "logical" to make it also lib64
> --Ken
jerry
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