[gmx-developers] [Patch] Gromacs 4.5.1 installs libraries to wrong directory on 64bit

[Klaus Kaempf]

* Sander Pronk <pronk at cbr.su.se> [Oct 07. 2010 17:17]:
> Hi Klaus,
> 
> > 
> > With my proposed patch you get it right for RPM based Linux and can
> > override it by setting the LIB environment variable when calling cmake.
> 
> That's a good point and I've committed the checking for the LIB environment variable. 

Great, thanks !

[...]
> 
> However, so far, I've kept the default to be %{prefix}/lib, because it works on:
> - any dpkg-based system
> - Mac OS X
> - BSD-based systems
> - cygwin
> - Solaris (for whatever that's worth)
> on any architecture.
> 
> and worse, %prefix/lib64 is *incompatible* with 3 out of the 5 systems mentioned above. Not to mention architectures like IA64 which are 64-bit but don't even have /usr/lib64 on RPM based systems.

Agreed. And I'm perfectly fine with the ability to override the
library path during package build.

Klaus
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