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From: jwa@fasytek.dk (J. W. Andersen)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:19:12 +0000
Subject: [lm-sensors] ASUS NCCH-DR confusing 83792 vs. 83627THF
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Thanks, Jean, for clearing this up for me.

Joern.

Jean Delvare wrote:
>>> The other thing that puzzles me: In an X86_64 system, I would expect to
>>> find the libsensor libraries in a the /lib64 directory, but they actually
>>> get installed in /usr/local/lib. What must I do to get these libraries
>>> in the proper place ?
>>>       
>> # You should not need to change this. It is the directory into which the
>>
>> # library files (both static and shared) will be installed.
>>
>> LIBDIR := $(PREFIX)/lib
>>
>> maybe you can change this to lib64 so the dir will be /usr/local/lib64 but I
>> dont know if such directory can exist.
>>     
>
> I can't get why some distributions invented these lib64 directories. On
> 32-bit systems we have lib, not lib32, so why make it different on
> 64-bit systems? It may make sense to have a lib32 directory on 64-bit
> systems for libraries which are only available in 32-bit format, Gentoo
> is doing it almost this way (lib is a link to lib64, and there is lib32
> for the 32-bit libraries), but doing it the other way around sounds
> weird to me.
>
> However if most distributions do that... Maybe we should detect 64-bit
> systems and change the default in this case. Anyone wants to give it a
> try?
>
> At any rate, nothing will break if you install your 64-bit
> libsensors.so under /usr/local/lib, I'm doing this and it works just
> fine.
>
> I wonder why you are installing it by yourself, rather that using the
> suse package which would put everything in the right place for you?
>
>   
>> You may also change the PREFIX to / to get it to /lib64 if you like. (all in top
>> Makefile)
>>     
>
> This would be a very bad idea. /lib (and /lib64) are meant for
> libraries fundamental to the system, libsensors sure doesn't qualify.
>
>