Arvind Srinivasan wrote:
> One of the ongoing discussions 
> (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/webstack-discuss/2007-August/thread.html#190)
>  on the webstack-discuss mailing list is about addressing the problem of 
> concurrent bitness of Apache installations [32- vs. 64- bit]. Specifically, 
> the issue is about the 'include' and 'build' directories, whose contents 
> differ depending on whether we built a 32-bit vs. 64-bit server. Downstream 
> modules need to use the 'include' & 'build' directory that corresponds to 
> whether they are building a 32-bit vs. 64-bit module.
> 
> AFAIK, there are no established naming conventions or directory hierarchies 
> in Solaris, for putting header files and build rules etc for 32-bit vs. 
> 64-bit in separate directories.

For include files, the Solaris convention is that you have
one set of include files for both 32-bit & 64-bit builds,
and use #ifdef _LP64 in the include files for anything
that has to be different between the two types of builds.

Is there some reason that doesn't work for apache?

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        -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

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