On 14 June 2012 11:51, Nix <nix@...> wrote:
> On 14 Jun 2012, Darrell Anderson outgrape:
>> +    if os.uname()[4] in ['x86_64','mips64','ppc64','sparc64','s390x']:
>> +        return 'lib64'
>> +    else:
>>          return 'lib'
>
> This is distro-specific. A significant number of distros (even those not
> using multiarch) put 64-bit libraries into lib/ and 32-bit libraries
> into lib32/.
>
> Can't you use a configure- or cmake-driven libdir here? That'll always
> be right.

Yes, archlinux does this.

It seems to make sense to only use /lib64 or lib32 when that is not
the native arch. ( you wouldn't say /bin32 if you're on a 32 bit
system)

Calvin