Re: [CT-NG] trivial patch to find lib64 on x86-64 hosts

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>]

Anthony, All,

On Tuesday 07 September 2010 08:04:10 Anthony Foiani wrote:
> $ ct-ng menuconfig
[--SNIP--]
>   LD    kconfig/mconf
> kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o: In function `print_item':
> checklist.c:(.text+0x33): undefined reference to `wmove'
> checklist.c:(.text+0x4d): undefined reference to `waddch'

> It turns out that Fedora puts most native libraries in /lib64 (or
> /usr/lib64) on x86_64 platforms.  The following patch fixes it for me:

Argh. Fedora again... ;-)

> $ hg diff
> diff -r f5ab0a80e466 kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh
> --- a/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh    Tue Aug 31 23:24:40 2010 +0200
> +++ b/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh    Tue Sep 07 00:03:21 2010 -0600
> @@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
>  {
>      for ext in so a dylib ; do
>          for lib in ncursesw ncurses curses ; do
> -            if [ -f "${LIBPATH}/lib${lib}.${ext}" ]; then
> -                echo "-L${LIBPATH} -l${lib}"
> -                exit
> -            fi
> +            for dir in "${LIBPATH}" "${LIBPATH}64" ; do
> +                if [ -f "${dir}/lib${lib}.${ext}" ]; then
> +                    echo "-L${LIBPATH} -l${lib}"
                               ^^^^^^^^^^
I guess you meant "-L${dir}" here.
Otherwise, your patch would have had no effect, AFAICS...

Besides, the patch is space-damaged.
Next time, use "hg email" it works wonders to send patches! ;-)

> Hopefully that will help someone out later on.  :)
> Thanks for the great tool!

Thanks for the patch, but I prefer we sync up with how the Linux kernel
does it things... I will try to sync this weekend, as time permits...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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