Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/20/2010 03:09 PM, Bruce Korb wrote: On 12/19/10 20:40, Noah Lavine wrote: Hello, I am not at all an expert on guile-config, but I will help if I can. Thank you to all who responded. Usually if you have 64-bit libs in lib64, you have to pass --libdir explicitly. We've now concluded t

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-20 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello, When a work subscription to libtool and a home subscription to guile-devel collide... On Mon 20 Dec 2010 05:40, Noah Lavine writes: > I found the file that pkg-config will be using to give you this > information. It is meta/guile-.pc in my Guile source > tree. Furthermore, I think it's s

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-20 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Bruce, Sorry you and others have had to suffer through this. On Mon 20 Dec 2010 15:09, Bruce Korb writes: > How much understanding of the machinery should be expected > of the hapless project builder? I'm not sure, but: > Nelson has been doing this stuff for quite a while and has > rea

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 08:20:25PM CET: > The other crucial part is that libtool doesn't get the > sys_lib_search_path_spec and sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec settings > right on several distros, introducing such wrong directories itself (not > to speak of cross setups). There

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bruce Korb wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 03:09:48PM CET: > How much understanding of the machinery should be expected > of the hapless project builder? I've skimmed most of the conversation in this thread now. The crucial part, I think, is *not* the --libdir setting. Distros usually get th

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-20 Thread Bruce Korb
On 12/19/10 20:40, Noah Lavine wrote: > Hello, > > I am not at all an expert on guile-config, but I will help if I can. Thank you to all who responded. > Usually if you have 64-bit libs in lib64, you have to pass --libdir > explicitly. We've now concluded that that is, indeed, the answer to the

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-19 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, I am not at all an expert on guile-config, but I will help if I can. First of all, as to how guile-config works. At least in the latest git version, it seems to be a thin wrapper for pkg-config. I found the file that pkg-config will be using to give you this information. It is meta/guile-

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-17 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Nelson, I am nearly certain we (you) have reached a point where libtool folks are going to say, "it is Guile", and Guile folks are going to say, "it is libtool". I am going to say, "I'd like some help from either or both". Because the guile-config invokes the guile binary in order to print ou

Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice?

2010-12-17 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Nelson, On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > The recent exchanges about the /usr/local/lib vs /usr/local/lib64 > problem with libtool + autogen + guile gave me a critical clue.  I > examined all of the /usr/local/lib64/*.la files, and found dozens that > mention (incorr