I'm trying to compile libffi 64-bit in a SLES-11 docker container.
The configure & make lines are dead simple:
./configure --prefix=/opt/<prog>/ --libdir=/opt/<prog>/lib
make
make install
Now libtool in its glory decides to install the .so's like this:
/opt/<prog>/lib/../lib64/libffi.so
Whats the magic trick to get rid of the ../lib64 part?
Found the issue.
Libtool isn't the problem.
The magic in libffi's configure is. It tries to be smart and invokes 'gcc --print-multi-os-directory' and stuffs that into toolexeclibdir.
Seems that madness is commonly patched out of the configure script, for example with something like this: https://github.com/chef/omnibus-software/blob/master/config/patches/libffi/libffi-3.2.1-disable-multi-os-directory.patch
The following configure command works for me:
configure --prefix=$PREFIX --libdir=$PREFIX/lib --disable-multi-os-directory