Re: Path for system-wide .eln files

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Tue, 01 Sep 2020, Yuri Khan wrote:

>> > AFAIU `/usr/libexec` would be for binaries in general, infact we store
>> > there the pdumper img.  Okay for `/usr/lib`.
>> 
>> It should be ${libdir} I think? That is, "lib64" on 64-bit systems.

> I am on a 64-bit system and my /usr/lib64 is empty except for a single
> ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 symlink. On the other hand, /usr/lib32 contains a
> number of shared objects belonging to the libc6-i386 package. This
> tells me maybe native bitness belongs in /usr/lib.

I should have been more precise. It is in fact distro specific, so there
may be 64-bit systems where the native libs are installed in /usr/lib
(and 32-bit libs would go to /usr/lib32), while others install the
native libs in /usr/lib64.

So the right thing to do is to use configure's ${libdir}.