Re: Altering %{_libdir}

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai laiskiainen org>]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:09:13 +0100, PFJ wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > One of the problems of packaging for mono is that it expects libs et al
> > to be in /usr/lib and not /usr/lib64. This causes lots of problems.
> >
> > Is there a way to say in the spec something akin to
> >
> > if %{_libdir} != '/usr/lib'
> >   ${_libdir} = '/usr/lib';
> >
> > Whenever I've tried to use --libdir inside of the CXX definition,
> > something gets confused and the software refuses to build.
>
> %define _libdir %{_prefix}/lib
>
> would override the default %{_libdir}.

If the software uses hardcoded /usr/lib for its paths there's not much 
point in using %{_libdir} to begin with.

	- Panu -