[mythtv] PREFIX and LIBDIR

[Colin Guthrie]

Dylan Semler wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Nigel Pearson <nigel at ind.tansu.com.au 
> <mailto:nigel at ind.tansu.com.au>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On 21/05/2008, at 4:05 AM, Dylan Semler wrote:
> 
>     I asked:
> 
>         Does anyone make use of an explicit LIBDIR
>         when building and installing MythTV?
> 
> 
>     Dylan kindly replied:
> 
>         In order to compile on Fedora 9 in 64 bit, I had to specify
>         libdir-name=lib64
> 
>         http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_SVN_on_Fedora#Compile_MythTV
> 
> 
>     Is that because there are existing (32bit)
>     MythTV libraries in /usr/local/lib ?
> 
> No.  If I don't specify libdir-name=lib64, configure can't find any of 
> the shared libs in /lib64, /usr/lib64, etc.  These are the default 
> locations for 64 bit libraries in F9 (I'm not sure about earlier versions).

Yup, that is why the libdir-name stuff is in there. If memory serves I 
wrote the original patch for this many moons back - (well *I* remember 
it, hopefully I've not just rewritten history in my head tho'!)

Quite a few distros, (Mandriva in my case) put 64 bit libs into 
/usr/lib64. This is to allow both arch's libraries to coexist and not 
require a chroot.

Col


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