Catalin Iacob added the comment: In reply to msg168184, LIBDIR is set to include lib64 instead of lib because openSUSE explicitly does it that way in their multilib implementation.
More specifically, the CONFIG_SITE environment variable is set to /usr/share/site/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu which contains, among more stuff: catalin@opensuse:~/hacking/cpython> cat $CONFIG_SITE | grep libdir # If user did not specify libdir, guess the correct target: if test "$libdir" = '${exec_prefix}/lib' ; then libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib64' /usr/share/site/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu is owned by package site-config whose README says: site-config: Site Paths Configuration for autoconf Based configure Scripts ========================================================================== Site configuration for autoconf based configure scripts provides smart defaults for paths that are not specified. All autoconf based configure scripts will automatically resource site script using CONFIG_SITE environment variable. It works without any explicit user interaction. Currently implemented features: Automatic libdir setup to $exec_prefix/lib or $exec_prefix/lib64 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Depending on architecture, site script should correctly and automatically switch between lib and lib64 libdir. libexecdir setup to $exec_prefix/lib ------------------------------------ Upstream libexecdir defaults to $exec_prefix/libexec. This directory is not part of FHS 2.2, so we change it to $exec_prefix/lib (yes, it is correct to set it to $exec_prefix/lib even for bi-arch platforms). Most projects add package name to this path, so you most probably get what FHS 2.2 expects. ---------- nosy: +catalin.iacob _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15631> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com