Re: recompiling deb to 64 bit

[Kenneth Johansson <ken@kenjo.org>]

On Jan 29, 2004, at 14:26, Ben Collins wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:40:32AM +0100, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
> > I managed to confuse myself trying to recompile a few libs to 64 bit
> > version doing
> >
> > apt-get source -b <package> works very bad with anything tat installs
> > libraries as the resulting deb installs the new 64 bit lib over the 32
> > bit version.
> >
> > what is the proper sequence to get it to install in the lib64 
> > directory
>
> You have to rewrite portions of debian/rules, and also edit
> debian/control so the library package names are of the form lib64foo.
>
> I'm betting you'll screw up your system pretty badly trying though.
> There's lots of pitfalls involved, and as you have to ask how to do
> this, you probably wont be aware of the problems (and they aren't easy
> to list).

What more than to get the library into /lib64 would need to be done?

Is the problem in building a correct deb package or something else like 
autoconf?

I tried to find any information about this but could not find much at 
all