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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:04:26 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Better support for distros using
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On 10/30/2011 05:51 PM, Saggi Mizrahi wrote:
> Some distributions use lib64 directories for 64 bit libraries. Currently
> configure would always generate libdir as $PREFIX/lib. By checking if
> the current distro has a /lib64 directory we can assume it is using this
> convention.

This doesn't work if people compile a 32-bit version of QEMU.  The right 
directory could be obtained with "gcc --print-multi-os-directory 
$CFLAGS", but I'm not sure whether it is a good thing to do.  We should 
try to avoid gratuitous differences from Autoconf.

The right thing to do would be to tweak the command-line supported by 
configure to the point that packagers can just use the same command-line 
that Autoconf uses (in RPM parlance that would be "%configure").

Paolo