Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:13324 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 97238 invoked by uid 1010); 13 Oct 2004 15:12:23 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 97187 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2004 15:12:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chatserv.de) (217.160.175.43) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 13 Oct 2004 15:12:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 19718 invoked by uid 1040); 13 Oct 2004 15:12:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Oct 2004 15:12:22 -0000 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:12:22 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: sas@chatserv To: Joe Orton cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <20041013142559.GA1701@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <41EE526EC2D3C74286415780D3BA9F8704E58AAE@ehost011-1.exch011.intermedia.net> <20041013142559.GA1701@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] ./configure, PHP, SuSE and the AMD64 From: sascha@schumann.cx (Sascha Schumann) On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Joe Orton wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:55:15AM +0200, Sascha Schumann wrote: >>> Going back to 64bit platforms, this is going to be a problem moving >>> forward. AMD64 is all over the place, and thus having lib and lib64 >> >> That is hardly a new issue. Irix and other systems have had >> different lib directories for many years. The users of those >> systems always coped with the directory layouts the system >> providers imposed upon them. I am sure the same will work >> for users of the AMD64 platform. > > IRIX and other systems don't ship with copies of MySQL, Postgres, cURL, Not true. Refer to Joerg's post for counterexamples. > Berkeley DB libraries, blah blah blah, which it's useful to be able to > use from PHP. > >>> directories. While a SuSE patch works for SuSE, what about other AMD64 >>> distros? What happens on FreeBSD? Can PHP's ./configure be fixed to be >> >> FreeBSD amd64 installs its libraries into /usr/lib, as any >> sane OS does. > > So other than vague slurs on OS sanity, are there objections to > committing my --with-libdir patch to HEAD? I will look at it later. - Sascha