Altering %{_libdir}

[Panu Matilainen]

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 -