On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:32:14 -0500
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...> wrote:

> On 06/23/2012 02:52 AM, Darrell Anderson wrote:
> > Commit a5dfd481?
> > 
> > tqca-tls builds here on 64-bit, but Slackware uses lib${LIBSUFFIX}, as do many other distros.
> > 
> > I don't know how to make any of that work on both types of directories.
> > 
> > Darrell
> 
> Thanks Darrell,
> 
>   How do we fix or undo the commit that breaks building for distros that use
> ../lib on x86_64??
> 
> <rant>
> 
> Damn!
> 
>   Why was this change made without regard to accommodating the prior build
> behavior? That is one thing we have to avoid doing. I recall the lib64
> discussion and I specifically noted that Arch and others use /lib regardless. We
> can't simply implement changes that break build behavior for some and not others
> and just -- leave it to the other guy to sort it out.
> 
>   Issues like this need to be solved TDE wide, not just until it "works for me."
> 
> </rant>
> 
>   That being said, I think this in this case, it is just broken logic leading to
> the build failure. Somewhere in this range from grep:
> 
> configure:#include<stdlib.h>
> configure:      TQString expandLibs(const TQString &lib)
> configure:              return TQString("-L") + lib;
> configure:      bool findLibrary(const TQString &name, TQString *lib)
> configure:                      *lib = "";
> configure:              if(checkLibrary("/usr/local/lib", name)) {
> configure:                      *lib = "/usr/local/lib";
> configure:              if(checkLibrary("/usr/local/lib64", name)) {
> configure:                      *lib = "/usr/local/lib64";
> configure:      if [ ! -f "$QTDIR/lib/libtqt-mt.so.3" ]; then
> configure:              if [ ! -f "$QTDIR/lib64/libtqt-mt.so.3" ]; then
> configure:                      echo "libtqt-mt.so.3 installed in $QTDIR/lib/"
> configure:                      echo "or $QTDIR/lib64/."
> 
>   If somebody knows how to fix this, please let us know so that a patch can be
> tested and pushed. configure logic and undoing git changes has never been a
> strong point so I would welcome suggestions here.

Hmmm.  As I understand it, potential directory schemes for 64-bit installs
break down like this:  64-bit libs may go in /lib64 or /lib.  32-bit libs may
go in /lib32 or /lib.  So a given distro will use /lib64 and /lib, or /lib and
/lib32, or /lib64 and /lib32 (often with /lib as a symlink to /lib64), or I
suppose we could have a pseudo-32-bit case where everything is jumbled
together in /lib, although that could get messy.

Anyway, that means that /lib64 should always be the correct directory if it 
exists, otherwise we need to use /lib as a fallback if there is no /lib64.  That 
should also work for 32-bit or similar setups that have only /lib.

However, by my understanding, that means that above fragment should
work (it's overriding results for /lib with results for /lib64 if the latter
exists.  I think.)  So either I'm misunderstanding, or the error is somewhere
else.