Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Richard Ulrich <richi@paraeasy.ch> writes:

> I want to package a library which hast the following lines in
> CMakeLists.txt

> IF(CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P EQUAL 8)
>     SET(LIBDIR lib64)
> ELSE (CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P EQUAL 8)
>     SET(LIBDIR lib)
> ENDIF(CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P EQUAL 8)

> now, how do I have to handle this in debian/libxyz.install?

On Debian, you should always install into lib and never use lib64.
(Eventually, you may want to use the multiarch directory, but it will
still not be lib64.)

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>