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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: honour --libdir when it is passed to
	./configure
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:44:26 +0100
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On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 17:41 +0100, Matt Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 02:10:35AM -0700, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 01:46 +0100, Matt Wilson wrote:
> > >
> > >  LIBLEAFDIR = lib
> > >  LIBLEAFDIR_x86_32 = lib
> > >  LIBLEAFDIR_x86_64 ?= lib64
> > > -LIBDIR = $(PREFIX)/$(LIBLEAFDIR)
> > >  LIBDIR_x86_32 = $(PREFIX)/$(LIBLEAFDIR_x86_32)
> > >  LIBDIR_x86_64 = $(PREFIX)/$(LIBLEAFDIR_x86_64)
> > 
> > Roger already asked if we can somehow get rid of all the LEAFDIR stuff
> > too.
> 
> That'd be lovely. I was a little worried about the python syspath
> bits, but now that I've looked to see that it uses distutils that
> should be fine.

Cool!

> > > diff -r 32034d1914a6 -r 0a592e08ac31 config/Tools.mk.in
> > > --- a/config/Tools.mk.in	Thu Jun 07 19:46:57 2012 +0100
> > > +++ b/config/Tools.mk.in	Wed Jun 20 00:40:15 2012 +0000
> > > @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
> > >  # Prefix and install folder
> > >  PREFIX              := @prefix@
> > > +exec_prefix         := @exec_prefix@
> > 
> > Is exec_prefix related to this change?
> 
> Yes, libdir defauts to ${exec_prefix}/lib, so if we don't bring
> exec_prefix into Tooks.mk, files will land in /lib by default instead
> of /usr/lib.

Ah, makes perfect sense, thanks.

Ian.