On 03/01/2017 05:13 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
The definition of these install variables comes from the GNU Coding
Standards[1]. You mention the installed scripts are machine-dependent
so they should be installed in either libdir or libexecdir. GCS says:
"libexecdir: The directory for installing executable programs to be
run by other programs rather than by users ..."
>
"libdir: The directory for object files and libraries of object
code ..."
Which doesn't really help us decide where to install non-executable
machine-dependent shell fragments.
Note the term "executable programs" in the section on "libexecdir", you
cited above. Shell fragment usually aren't "executable".
Based on this information alone,
libexecdir seems like a reasonable choice. However, looking at what
packages installed on my computer do, libdir seems to be much more
commonly used.
This observation has its reasons (at least under Linux).
- Many distros do not support or did not support libexecdir and favor
$libdir/<package>.
- Many packages do not use libexecdir.
- Putting everything into $libdir/<package> is easier to use.
Ralf
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