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

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 30 November 2010 14:34, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> The point is that
>  * either /usr/lib64 shouldn't exist at all,
>  * or .../lib64 directories shouldn't be searched at all
>    (this is what Debian's GCC 4.3.2 does),
>  * or the search path order should be changed, e.g. to something
>    like: dir1/../lib64 dir1 dir2/../lib64 dir2 ...
>
> "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.