Re: Handeling of lib64 directories in packages.
> 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:
>
> /lib -> /lib64
>
> and to list both locations in /etc/ld.so.conf, with /lib64 first.
>
> This should make the eventual transition to multiarch painless and solve
> problems like the above at the same time. (Kurt, you can try that
> already and see if it helps.)
That doesn't really help with the above situation at all, though,
does it? If debian/rules has a hard coded path of the form
./debian/<package>/lib, a symlink in / does nothing.
The is a packaging bug and should be filed against the individual package.
Kurt, can you list some of the packages you've seen with this problem
so that we can verify if this is the case? This might be something
for which we could devise a lintian check.
Eric
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