[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Paths for x86_64

[Martin Braun]

D Richard Felker III wrote:
  this patch is blatently incorrect. lib64 should NOT BE USED BY
> DEFAULT!!! it is a broken, nonstandard practice by broken distros!!!
> btw the shell code in the -dumpmachine parsing also has 5l nonsense in
> it.
> 
> let me clarify: ANY patch containing lib64 crap will be rejected
> unless it satisfies the following conditions:
> 
> - unobtrusive in the configure script, i.e. no bloated extra
>   conditions or silly code that doesn't make sense.
> 
> - unobtrusive with respect to not messing up compile on
>   standars-compliant x86-64 systems. this means lib64 can never be
>   selected unless the script detects you're using a broken system with
>   libraries in the wrong places. how you detect that is up to you, but
>   some ideas are either specific distro-detection, or checking for the
>   presence of $prefix/lib64 in the filesystem.
> 
Did you read the right patch ? Among lots of other things the
presence of $prefix/lib is checked. If you missed that and do not
understand what the case "`$_cc -dumpmachine ...`" is for you should
ask a more knowledgable person to check the patch.

Martin
> rich
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