[phobos] 32 and 64 bit libraries on Linux

[Walter Bright]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday 03 January 2011 14:48:38 Walter Bright wrote:
>   
>> Currently, dmd simply looks for libphobos.a
>>
>> I suggest changing it to:
>>
>>     lib32/libphobos.a    for -m32
>>     lib64/libphobos.a    for -m64
>>     
>
> I assume that that's within the file hierarchy in the zip file? The correct 
> directories for those varies from distribution to distribution if you're talking 
> about /lib, /usr/lib, or /usr/local/lib. Some distros have lib for 32-bit and 
> 64-bit. Others do lib for 64-bit and lib32 for 32-bit. However, any that have 
> both lib32 and lib64 are going to have lib as well with either lib being a 
> symlink to one of the other two or one of the other two being a symlink to lib.
>
>   

I figure the lib32 and lib64 directories being subdirectories of the 
directory they are installed in - i.e. dmd will search for 
lib32/libphobos.a or lib64/libphobos.a