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bug #29814: Library search feature should be configurable for multilib systems

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Fri 07 May 2010 04:10:39 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Enhancement
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open
Component Version:  3.82 Operating System:  POSIX-Based
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Fri 07 May 2010 04:15:37 PM UTC, comment #3: 

That requires changes to every makefile.  With my proposed patch series, distributions that want to support multilib would be able to configure "make" to use the correct standard search directories for the system's primary architecture.  A user who wants to build a program for a secondary architecture could even set LIBDIRNAME (along with CFLAGS) on the command line to use the appropriate search directories.

Matt McCutchen <hashproduct>
Fri 07 May 2010 12:37:45 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Make will use VPATH (or vpath) for library search as well.  So, on a multilib system, you can add:

vpath lib% /...whatever...

to specify where to look for libraries, for example.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
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Fri 07 May 2010 04:12:18 AM UTC, comment #1: 

This was me, forgetting to log in.  Sorry.

Matt McCutchen <hashproduct>
Fri 07 May 2010 04:10:39 AM UTC, original submission:  

GNU Make's library search feature (activated by prerequisites of the form -lLIBNAME) searches the hard-coded directories /lib and /usr/lib along with make's own libdir.  This is unhelpful on a multilib system.  Make should provide a way to vary the search path depending on the architecture of the target being built.

I originally reported this against Fedora, and I posted a patch series there that adds the feature and makes some other cleanups:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583689

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