Going back to 64bit platforms, this is going to be a problem moving
forward. AMD64 is all over the place, and thus having lib and lib64
That is hardly a new issue. Irix and other systems have had
different lib directories for many years. The users of those
systems always coped with the directory layouts the system
providers imposed upon them. I am sure the same will work
for users of the AMD64 platform.
directories. While a SuSE patch works for SuSE, what about other AMD64
distros? What happens on FreeBSD? Can PHP's ./configure be fixed to be
FreeBSD amd64 installs its libraries into /usr/lib, as any
sane OS does.
- Sascha