From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262103AbUFXBoF (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:44:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263687AbUFXBoE (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:44:04 -0400 Received: from smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk ([195.188.213.5]:52599 "EHLO smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262103AbUFXBoC (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:44:02 -0400 Message-ID: <40DA31E0.6010807@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 02:44:00 +0100 From: Sid Boyce Reply-To: sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: what is up with lib64? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jun 2004 01:44:15.0939 (UTC) FILETIME=[C210C930:01C4598C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cyrus Adkisson wrote: > Can someone explain to me why x86_64 has lib64 directories and how lib64 is supposed to work with the lib directories that are > already there? I'm having a very difficult time getting anything to compile from source. > > FC2, dual x86_64 lib is for 32-bit and lib64 is for 64-bit obviously. Build success here is about 50%, a few build but won't run, segfaults etc. The configure script in some apps needs the option --libdir=/usr/lib64 e.g. there is also a /lib64 and /usr/X11R6/lib64. Some apps will configure and build without the need to adjust options. Some others will not build as distributed, e.g kmymoney which keeps looking in /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64. There are yet others like slmodem that contain a 32-bit proprietary module for 2.4.x that will not be compatible with 2.6.x kernel sources. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE =====