Request for reviews (XS): 6778657 and 6778662: Patchs from Red Hat

[Tom Rodriguez]

That makes sense, though searching those locations when they don't  
exist doesn't seem that bad.  Maybe specifying the exceptions instead  
of enumerating the platforms where it applies would require fewer  
changes going forward.  It's also more benign when it's wrong.

#if defined(_LP64) && !defined(ALPHA)

tom

On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 09:48 -0800, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
>> Why isn't defined(_LP64) sufficient?  I don't know about S390 but it
>> should be for AMD64 and 64 bit sparc.
>
> I think this is because of multi-/biarch architectures.  Architectures
> that only support 64-bit, like Alpha, don't have /lib64 or /usr/lib64.
> Their libraries are simply in /lib and /usr/lib.
>
> - Christian
>