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Re: Library search path problem on x86_64 machines (lib64 vs lib)

On 30 November 2010 16:24, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2010-11-30 14:38:51 +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> On 30 November 2010 14:34, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> > "make install" typically installs libraries in $prefix/lib, not
>> > $prefix/lib64, so that the existence of lib64 doesn't make sense!
>>
>> Other distros handle x86/x86_64 differently to Debian.
>
> So, if I understand correctly, an official GCC version shouldn't
> be used under Debian?
>
> Hasn't this been standardized?

No, see the comments in gcc/config/i386/t-linux64

>From that file it appears that gcc should figure out for itself
whether to use lib64/lib or lib64/lib32, so maybe Debian patch that
file for their GCC package.
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