From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: grub-0.5.90 is released
Date: 02 Mar 1999 00:15:10 -0600
> I use DATA because it is the only way to get grub to install a
> ``miscellaneous file''. It doesn't violate anything (except maybe
> elegance) to force it to install into libdir.
I think you are wrong in these points:
1. Grub stage* are architecture-dependent, which violates the automake
policy, that is, DATA should be architecture-independent.
2. pkglib_DATA is not allowed. In the automake manual,
Such data can be installed in the directories `datadir',
`sysconfdir', `sharedstatedir', `localstatedir', or `pkgdatadir'.
though current automake doesn't check. Why shouldn't DATA be installed
in libdir (or pkglibdir)? The reason is that DATA is
architecture-independent and libdir (pkglibdir) is used for
architecture-dependent files.
3. GRUB stage* are not object files. Will you link other object files
with them to create a program or a library? No! stage* are executables
or architecture-dependent data files.
> I may end up putting them in datadir, once the architecture is wired
> into the filename (something like $(datadir)/grub/i386). Does that
> sound like a good idea?
No. The Makefile Conventions says:
`datadir'
The directory for installing read-only architecture independent
data files. This should normally be `/usr/local/share', but write
it as `$(prefix)/share'. (If you are using Autoconf, write it as
`@datadir@'.) As a special exception, see `$(infodir)' and
`$(includedir)' below.
Therefore, installing them in datadir is obviously strange. In my
opinion, they should be installed in bootdir as they were, because
there is no suitable standard directory for them.
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