On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Peter Hutterer
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Reviewed-by:  Ping Cheng <[email protected]>
>>
>> Do we need to mention "--libdir=/usr/lib64" for 64-bit system users
>> since more people are running 64-bit systems nowadays?
>
> well, --libdir is a standard configure flag and nothing wacom specific.
> same with --datadir, --bindir and the many other options. The prefix is only
> special since it is wrong on most systems (/usr/local by default) and thus
> used virtually all the time.

Maybe we can mention this "wrong" feature in the README so people
won't get frustrated for not getting the driver installed properly by
following our steps?

>
> do all distributions put their 64-bit libraries into /usr/lib64? If not,
> putting the --libdir it into the readme would likely be more confusing to
> users.

I have no idea.  I only tested on a very limited distro's.  It is your
call.  I have no preference.  Just thought it might be something we
could inform our users.

Ping

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