From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Korb Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general Subject: Re: How does one specify linking to 64 bit libraries when there is a choice? Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:09:48 -0800 Message-ID: <4D0F63AC.2080303@gnu.org> References: <4D0BC3CD.2030103@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292854220 5893 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2010 14:10:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:10:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bruce Korb , "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: Libtool List , guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 20 15:10:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUgRL-0003ve-FB for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:10:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUgRK-0005qe-BM for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:10:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52557 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUgR9-0005nn-Vy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUgR8-0007NF-LZ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:10:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:40429) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUgR3-0007L9-4M; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:09:57 -0500 Original-Received: from adsl-75-0-186-141.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net ([75.0.186.141]:42583 helo=[10.10.1.101]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUgQz-0003yo-Oq; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:09:53 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101125 SUSE/3.0.11 Thunderbird/3.0.11 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11264 gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general:11331 Archived-At: On 12/19/10 20:40, Noah Lavine wrote: > Hello, > > I am not at all an expert on guile-config, but I will help if I can. Thank you to all who responded. > Usually if you have 64-bit libs in lib64, you have to pass --libdir > explicitly. We've now concluded that that is, indeed, the answer to the original question. The fallout question: How much understanding of the machinery should be expected of the hapless project builder? Nelson has been doing this stuff for quite a while and has reasonably good understanding of the process. From that understanding, he made the assumption that a standard 64 bit "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)" installation would be compatible with installing Guile via ./configure && make && sudo make install and not wind up with a frumitzed `guile-config link` output. The assumption was incorrect and we now know that. Perhaps we can strive to make the assumption correct in the future? Thank you! Regards, Bruce