Re: [Pdfedit-support] configure choose the wrong lib directory on x 86_64 multilib. .

[Bollinger, J. C <John.Bollinger@STJUDE.ORG>]

On Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:40 PM, Michal Hocko [mailto:ms...@gm...] wrote:

> What kind of problems you have with our bug tracker? I can access
> http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/main_page.php just fine.


I don't have any trouble with that URL, thanks.  The problem is that I didn't have it in the first place, because that's not where the "Bugtracker" hyperlink on http://pdfedit.cz/en/index.html takes me.  The hyperlink is directed instead at http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/, which is redirected to http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/index.html (apparently an alternative URL for the PDFedit home page).


> OK, this seems that libt and xlib where taken from the bad path.


> Most libraries have their parameters to specify compilation and
> link
> parameters.
> E.g. boost should be specified as --with-boost-libdir=PATH
> LibT1: --with-t1-library=PATH


Ok.  The boost and t1 options are documented, and that's how I worked around the problem.


> ./configure --help should show you all available parameters.
> zlib detection is really stupid and hardcoded. You can specify
> a root directory for zlib build by --with-zlib=PATH but there is no
> way
> to tell it that it should look into /lib64 rather than /lib.
> I thought I had some patch around to fix that but I cannot find it.
>
> Anyway you can workaround that by editing Makefile.flags which is
> generated by configure and it contains all the flags. So you can
> change
> all linking paths from lib to lib64.
> Sorry for the ugliness but I really hate to look into autoconf
> macros
> again ;)
> If you want to fix them it would be really welcome but "friends do
> not
> let friends edit autoconf macros" so I cannot ask you to do it.


Thanks Michal.  I have more than a passing familiarity with Autoconf, so I may just take a stab at this.  No promises, though.


Cheers,

John

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