cmake and 64 bit installations

William A. Hoffman billlist at nycap.rr.com
Fri Jun 9 18:33:51 BST 2006


At 01:21 PM 6/9/2006, Thomas Zander wrote:
>On Friday 9 June 2006 17:27, Dirk Mueller wrote:
>> > You can't do that. On some systems (e.g. Debian/Kubuntu), 64-bit libs
>> > go to "/lib" and 32-bit libs if any go to "/lib32".
>>
>> .. which is quite screwed up and as far as I heard they're trying to
>> change it.
>
>Its screwed up?
>On my 64bit machine I have exactly 0(zero) 32-bit libraries installed and 
>everything is called 'lib' and not 'lib64'.
>
>As far as I see it; the machines bitsize is the default and making new 
>installations adjust to what lots of others have is soon going to be a 
>bad legacy decision.

CMake will handle this as well of course.   It tests to make sure the 
directories exist before adding them to the search paths.

-Bill





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