Re: ./configure, PHP, SuSE and the AMD64

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Joe Orton wrote:

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:55:15AM +0200, Sascha Schumann wrote:

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.

IRIX and other systems don't ship with copies of MySQL, Postgres, cURL,

    Not true.  Refer to Joerg's post for counterexamples.

Berkeley DB libraries, blah blah blah, which it's useful to be able to use from PHP.

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.

So other than vague slurs on OS sanity, are there objections to committing my --with-libdir patch to HEAD?

    I will look at it later.

    - Sascha