Compiling GCC 4.4.1 for a new "linux distro"

[Andrew Haley]

Tim Prince wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> There's a silly bug in Debian-
>> derived distros where on amd64 64-bit libraries are placed in /lib
>> instead of /lib64. 

> Most people who use these distros consider their differences from the
> others as virtuous features, not bugs.

Well, the authors of the system ABI standard and the gcc porters decided
to do it one way and Debian decided to do it another way.

Andrew.