Re: [Boost-cmake] [PATCH] Use LIB_SUFFIX, allows installing 64bit libs into /usr/lib64.

Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] [PATCH] Use LIB_SUFFIX, allows installing 64bit libs into /usr/lib64.
From: Ingmar Vanhassel (ingmar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-26 17:59:06

Excerpts from troy d. straszheim's message of Mon Oct 26 22:43:16 +0100 2009:
> Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > Take:
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Makefile-Substitutions.html#Makefile-Substitutions 
> > 
> > 
> > Your:
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Installation-Directory-Variables.html#Installation-Directory-Variables 
> > 
> > 
> > Pick:
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Preset-Output-Variables.html 
> > 
> > 
> > There are many.  :)  -sc
> 
> I don't see much about LIB_SUFFIX there, but googling it turns up a 
> bunch of KDE stuff.  They're probably one of the biggest early adopters 
> of cmake....   Ingmar, should I generally be looking to KDE for naming 
> conventions?
> 
> -t

Yeah, I would. At least I'd dare to say that they've made lots of
software move to CMake from autotools, when they did that move.

And Kitware works fairly closely with them on buildsystem issues.

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