Bug 61060 – CONF_LIBDIR doesnt handle non=/usr/lib* directories cleanly

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-08-20 12:18:39 UTC]

currently CONF_LIBDIR support works without problem if prefix is /usr and only if prefix is /usr, and expects anything else to be handled in the ebuild. this patch attempts to fix this, allowing econf and einstall to handle prefixes more intelligently.

[Comment 1 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-08-20 12:19:17 UTC]

Created attachment 37810 [details, diff]
adds CONF_LIBDIR_PREFIX support to ebuild.sh

[Comment 2 Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) 2004-08-20 16:31:36 UTC]

Created attachment 37829 [details, diff]
Patch to change the default libsuffix in econf() via --enable-libsuffix

This is a new solution to solve the /lib64 issue without hacking --prefix and
--libdir.

[Comment 3 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-08-20 18:22:52 UTC]

i have yet to get --enable-libsuffix to work.

ayanami gtk+-1.2.10 # fgrep libsuffix *
ayanami gtk+-1.2.10 #
ayanami gtk+-2.4.7 # fgrep libsuffix *
ayanami gtk+-2.4.7 #
ayanami readline-5.0 # fgrep libsuffix *
ayanami readline-5.0 #
ayanami ncurses-5.4 # fgrep libsuffix *
ayanami ncurses-5.4 #

[Comment 4 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-08-20 18:38:58 UTC]

./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-libsuffix 64 --with-curses
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
checking build system type... Invalid configuration `64': machine `64' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh ./support/config.sub 64 failed.

fixing the patch so that it does --enable-libdir=64 gives me a configure line of:
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-libsuffix=64 --with-curses

and it seems to -almost- work:

ayanami readline # ls /var/tmp/portage/readline-4.3-r4/image/
lib  usr
ayanami readline # ls /var/tmp/portage/readline-4.3-r4/image/usr/
include  lib  lib64  share
ayanami readline # ls /var/tmp/portage/readline-4.3-r4/image/usr/lib64/
libhistory.so  libreadline.so
ayanami readline # ls /var/tmp/portage/readline-4.3-r4/image/usr/lib/
libhistory.a  libreadline.a

:|

[Comment 5 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-08-21 22:02:36 UTC]

ferringb re-did my patch to make it less sinfully ugly and the result is in CVS. yay

[Comment 6 Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) 2004-08-22 02:46:08 UTC]

Forget my patch. It's crap :-/

Most of the configure's don't listen to -enable-libsuffix.

[Comment 7 Brian Harring (RETIRED) 2004-08-22 05:07:53 UTC]

Down the line I'd actually like to use the suffix syntax; I just don't think most packages support it currently :/

[Comment 8 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-09-30 23:19:23 UTC]

this bug is really fixed, and the code has been in a released portage for a bit.