And here SuSE is very well able to work with the maintainers to get it to generate configure scripts and makefiles which do also work with 64bit Linux systems.
I don't know if it's SuSE's job, but someone who knows the SuSE setup AND automake/autoconf needs to work on creating a new version of those tools that are able to run on a 64-bit machine and easily create the user's choice of 32-bit or 64-bit applications. I have not yet seen a single application which uses automake build correctly on a 64-bit machine without having to spend lots of time trying to figure out how to modify or override the incorrect settings in the generated code, especially when trying to build 32-bit libraries. I can sometimes figure out a combination of CXX, CC, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS, linux32, --host, --enable-lib-suffix, and --with-extra-libs that it takes to get the right settings to pass all the way through libtoolize, aclocal, autoconf, autoheader, and automake but it certainly is a (%$%^& pain. Usually I end up having to override some of the Makefile settings anyway because there is no way to get the right settings to pass through the obstacle course. 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. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail