Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:00:30AM CET: > On 8 Jan 2008, at 04:40, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> There is code that checks $prefix/lib. I realize this has been that >> way >> before your patch, but shouldn't we test (expanded) $libdir instead, >> so >> that users of libdir='${prefix}/lib64' get what they want? > > > Hmm. Well, looking through the expanded testsuite, and the Makefile > rules that call it, libdir is not set. Some of our tests fake it by > setting it in the .at file (link-order.at f'rinstance), but that > won't help a user with libraries in lib64. > > I think I'm not understanding what you're asking for here. Unless it is > fixing a bug, then I'd like to leave it until after the release.
We can well leave it until after the release. What I meant is this: libdir is usually initialized near the beginning of a configure script (by Autoconf boilerplate code) like this: libdir='${prefix}/lib' and it can be overridden by the user, e.g.: ./configure --prefix=/foo --libdir=/foo/lib64 in which case we'd be looking at /foo/lib. But that's not all that important, users can always get what they want by specifying LIBLTDL correctly. Cheers, Ralf