Subject: FW: Re: bug#1287: 23.0.60; emacs 23.0.60 does not build on x86_64 architeture

From: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:50:31 +0100

> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:17:29 +0100
> Subject: Re: bug#1287: 23.0.60; emacs 23.0.60 does not build on x86_64
architeture
> From: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
> To: "Chong Yidong" <[email-masked]>

> -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:28:51 +0100
> > Subject: Re: bug#1287: 23.0.60; emacs 23.0.60 does not build on
x86_64
> > architeture
> > From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
> > To: "stefan-husmann\@t-online.de" <[email-masked]>

> > "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]> writes:
> > 
> > > > In the absence of the /usr/lib64 -> /usr/lib symlink, run
> > > > `configure', and check the file src/config.h.  Is the line
> > > > 
> > > > #define HAVE_LIB64_DIR 1
> > > > 
> > > > commented out, or is it uncommented?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > it is not commented.
> > 
> > Does a directory /usr/lib64 exist on your system?
> > 
> Hello,

> it does, but it is almost empty. That's all:

> gcj-4.4.0-10  libffi.so    libffi.so.4.0.1     security
> libffi.a      libffi.so.4  logging.properties

> Regards Stefan

Hello, 

the files under /usr/lib64 all belong to one package, which is not even
an official on. Deinstalling that package removes also /usr/lib64
itself, and in that case emacs builds fine.

Regards Stefan