[X2Go-Dev] x2goserver installs into /usr/lib on x86_64 system

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Oliver, hi Reinhard,

On Sa 28 Jan 2012 22:07:23 CET Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Oliver Burger  
> <obgr_seneca at mageia.org> wrote:
>> 2012/1/28 Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de>:
>>> I am not at all an expert on this, I can only report the latest approaches
>>> in Debian here.
>>>
>>> On systems /usr/lib is the default folder for libraries that are built for
>>> the same architecture as the system itself. There also should be a symlink
>>> from lib64 -> lib. For other architectures there can be other lib folders
>>> (e.g. /usr/lib32 for ia32 stuff).
>>>
>>> On multi-arch systems (like currently under development in Debian  
>>> sid) there
>>> are lib folders for each architecture
>>>
>>>  /usr/lib/<arch>/
>>>
>>> So basically, installing code to /usr/lib should be fine.
>> It's a bit different in Mageia and iirc the other rpm based distros.
>> Normally /usr/lib/ is used here for 32bit libraries, x86_64 is for
>> 64bit libraries. This is especially neccessary if you have to install
>> 32bit and 64bit versions of the same library next to each other.
>
> Debian solves this differently: all library packages that are supposed
> to be co-installable across archs get installed to
> /usr/lib/$triplet/lib.foo. This way, you can install sparc 64bit or
> arm packages on your 32bit i386 laptop. This can be useful for example
> for cross-compiling, etc.
>
>>
>> But looking into some of those files, lib is hardcoded there, so it
>> would need quite some patching to make them installable in lib64. But
>> since all but x2goslitewrapper is actually noarch, it will perhaps not
>> hurt much...
>> Especially as different from what I had in mind, our build system does
>> not block arch dependant 64bit binaries to be installed in /usr/lib :)
>
> Yeah, probably the makefiles should be extended to make the the libdir
> ($PREFIX/$LIBDIR, with $LIBDIR being either /lib, /lib32 or /lib64)
> configurable.

Took a closer look now: each x2goserver Makefile that puts some stuff  
to /usr/lib/x2go has a line

   LIBDIR=$(PREFIX)/lib/x2go

You can simply override this var by calling something like this:

   $ make PREFIX=/usr LIBDIR=/some/path/lib64 build

Is it that what you need?

Greets,
Mike



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