[Mono-dev] Mono support on Fedora, Ubuntu, Solaris, etc.

[Geoff Norton]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 23:22 +0100, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > For Fedora/RedHat users, the rule for 64 bit users is that code goes
> > > in /usr/lib64 rather than /usr/lib. Mono has quite a few packages which
> > > proports to move code to the correct libdir, but has things hardcoded as
> > > $(prefix)/lib rather than $(libdir) within config (and even source)
> > > files.
> > > 
> > > To Fedora/RedHat users, this is a 100% no-no.
> > 
> > Where should IL be placed?  Platform-independent IL, at that (e.g.
> > monodoc.dll, System.Core.dll, etc.)?  openSUSE places this
> > under /usr/lib, even on 64-bit platforms (which admittedly is rather
> > odd).  What does Fedora suggest?
> 
> If you're on a 64 bit box, /usr/lib64/mono. Anything else, /usr/lib/mono

So what happens if I install 32-bit and 64-bit mono on a 64-bit box, I
get 2 of every .dll?

-g