Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

>>   Log:
>>     allow one to control/override the /usr/lib64 use via Autoconf option
>>     --enable-build-lib64
> 
> Usually this is done by ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64.

Possibly I misunderstand, but is that true?  I believe --libdir just
sets where make install is going to place built libraries, it doesn't
build against libs in the root filesystem /usr/lib64, which I understood
Ralf's comment to mean (like LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib64" would).

-Andy