Re: [PATCH] add --with-libdir flag (was Re: [PHP-DEV] ./configure, PHP, SuSE and the AMD64)

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:36:49PM +0200, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Joe Orton wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:13:04AM +0200, Derick Rethans wrote: > > > I think this patch is the way to go for this, but it won't address > > > issues when you mix both 64bit and 32bit libraries as this one simply > > > requires you to have everything in either 32bit or 64bit. So we can't > > > really commit it. > > > > I don't know what you mean by that. You can't link both 32-bit or 64-bit > > libraries into one program, that doesn't work, of course. > > Ok, but having them in /lib and /lib32 at the same time does I guess. > (though it still doesn't make sense to do so, and you can always symlink > this). Sure, you could put your libraries in /bar and headers in /foo and this would confuse most of the library checks too. With an ideal configure script you could just export CPPFLAGS=-I/foo LDFLAGS=-L/bar, and that would work... joe