Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (449 mails)

[Steve Potter <geopagan@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > The autoconf family of tools are supposed to make things easier, but
> > that's only true when they work right - and they never seem to work
> > right in a 64-bit environment.
> 
> The tools work right. IMHO, the real source of the problem 
> is an irrational /usr/lib8, /usr/lib16 environment.

The tools work right?

   Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce
   shell scripts to automatically configure software source code
   packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds
   of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention.

They're supposed to use their knowledge of the host operating
system to make it easy to create the correct Makefiles.
Are you saying that autoconf is unable to build correct Makefiles
on the SuSE 64-bit environment because it is not "UNIX-like"?



		
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