Re: general problem with pkgsrc on 64bit linux

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 20 Jan 2008 10:32:34 -0600
russell_mcmanus%yahoo.com@localhost wrote:

> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:15:05PM -0600, 
> > russell_mcmanus%yahoo.com@localhost wrote:
> > > I'm having trouble compiling a bunch of pkgsrc packages on 64 bit
> > > linux.  I think it's because /usr/lib64 is being inserted before the
> > > pkgsrc lib64 directory in some cases.
> > 
> > pkgsrc is not using lib64. But yeah, it can be a hassle if /usr/lib64 is
> > added before $PREFIX/lib.
> 
> It's more than just a hassle, many packages won't compile!
> 
> Unfortunately, although my knowledge is growing, at this time I only
> know a little bit about the internals of pkgsrc.  Any ideas how I can
> get pkgsrc to stop inserting /usr/lib64 before $PREFIX/lib?

If all that's needed is to remove occurrences of -L/usr/lib64 then
the wrapper framework should be able to do it for you.
Try something like this in mk.conf:
BUILDLINK_TRANSFORM+=rm:-L/usr/lib64