[Qgis-developer] x86_64 support

Tim Sutton tim at linfiniti.com
Thu Aug 30 18:34:29 EDT 2007


Hi

If it doesnt find them on start up its probably a case for adding an
USE_LIB_64 option or similar to cmake and then ifdeffing the bits of
qgis code that are searching in lib to use lib64 if that option is
enabled. (its just a few places so should be a minor job).

Regards

Tim

2007/8/30, Douglas E. Warner <silfreed at silfreed.net>:
> On Thursday 30 August 2007, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> > > Where are the plugins installed? Into /usr/lib, or /usr/lib64? Does
> > > Debian install 64-bit libraries into /usr/lib64?
> >
> > The core+gui shared libraries are installed to /usr/lib and the plugins
> > to /usr/lib/qgis
>
> Ah, that's probably why things are working fine.  Some distributions like to
> install 64-bit libraries to lib64 so that 32-bit and 64-bit libraries can
> co-exists side-by-side.  Fedora is one of them.
>
> This was fixed back when qgis used autoconf in ticket #27
> (https://svn.qgis.org/trac/ticket/27).
>
> If you look at the bug I'm working on for Fedora (bug #27549 -
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247549) you'll see that
> although the patch I attached earlier moves where the libraries are installed
> at, it doesn't seem that qgis finds them when starting up.
>
> -Doug
>
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