Re: [autoconf] 32/64-bit systems

[Ben Taylor]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:46 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:32:44 -0400
> "Ben Taylor" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>so i have something like prefix/lib and prefix/lib/sparcv9 for sparc
>>and prefix/lib and prefix/lib/amd64 for x64.
>
> This naming convention is standard among Solaris developers?

That's the standard Sun uses for their 64-bit libraries on Sparc
and X86-64.  Normal 32-bit follows ${prefix}/lib

>>To be quite honest, I cannot fathom why configure itself
>>generates a full path to the library, instead of "-liconv"
>>which would work because I'm passing the right
>>include and ldflags to configure.  Seems like a bug to
>>me.
>
> Hmm, autoconf's AC_CHECK_LIB([NAME], [FUNC], [...]) provides
> the feature what you want, I guess. It would not search the
> pathname of libNAME, but it would execute
>        ${CC} ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} conftest.c -lNAME
> conftest.c refers FUNC. Do you think you found the bug of
> autoconf?

I think so.  Mainly because it's returning the full path of the
32-bit library on a 64-bit system.  If it was returning -liconv
(in this instance) I'm pretty sure the test would pass.

Ben