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Re: Handeling of lib64 directories in packages.



John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:02:42AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be> writes:
> > > It seems when preparing the package things gets moved to the
> > > "lib64" dir.  But when it then tries to package it looks for it
> > > in the "lib" dir.
> > > 
> > > Anybody got any idea why it's doing that and how to fix it?
> > 
> > Maybe, just maybe:
> > 
> > The upstream source is aware of amd64 and conforms to the standard of
> > using lib64. Running 'configure; make; make install
> > prefix=debian/package' will put the libs in lib64. The debian/rules
> > file on the other hand is not following the amd64 lib64 standard and
> > looks in /lib.
> 
> For the record, my current plan for pure64 whenever we get space on
> ftp.d.o or a new repository, is to install the following symlink:

Whats wrong with alioth? Need help setting it up or making an upload
queue?

MfG
        Goswin



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