Bruno Haible wrote: > Monty Taylor wrote: >>> Specifying -m64 in the CFLAGS is not enough. The autoconf documentation [1] >>> recommends to use either >>> CPPFLAGS=-m64 LDFLAGS=-m64 >>> or >>> CC="gcc -m64". >>> >>> The reason is precisely so that autoconf tests which run the preprocessor >>> will yield the expected result. >> Fair enough ... on the other hand, though, I tried also setting >> CPPFLAGS=-m64 and it still didn't work. > > As always, if you want us to be able to help you, please be as explicit as > possible. > - "I tried setting ..." - what did you do exactly? Did you run > "./configure CPPFLAGS=-m64 LDFLAGS=-m64" in a freshly unpacked tarball, > or what else? > - "it still didn't work" - what did you expect, and what results/symptoms > did you observe?
Just wanted to follow up... I _thought_ I'd done a test setting CPPFLAGS =-m64 as you indicated above, but apparently I did not. :) I re-tried that and it detected 64-bit platform appropriately. Thanks! Monty
