Need help with library issue on x86_64

[Quentin Spencer]

Orion Poplawski wrote:

> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
>>
>> usually just removing the dir entirely just works... the linker is not
>> stupid and does the right thing
>
>
> While the linker is not stupid, this libtool is.  It insists on 
> scanning a list of directories for the libraries and only linking with 
> them if it finds them.
>

This is from the same upstream authors that decided that if you're 
building on i686, then you should definitely add -march=i686 to the 
compile flags regardless of the flags the user has already decided to 
use. Out of curiosity, I just looked at the Debian patches and noticed 
that they have heavily patched this file--you might look at what they 
are doing for a solution: 
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hdf5/hdf5_1.6.4-4.diff.gz

-Quentin