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.

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