Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jun 20 12:20, Max Bowsher wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jun 20 01:57, Max Bowsher wrote:
There doesn't seem to be any particular consensus between Linux distros
on whether the package should be called "apache2" or "httpd".
I have chosen to follow the naming of the official tarball, and call it
"httpd". (Red Hat/Fedora does the same, FWIW)
I like "apache2" better, FWIW.
The assumption that package name == tarball stem name is somewhat implied
by the generic-build-script system. It wouldn't be impossible to work
around, but it would be a bit weird.
What should the filenames be?
Oh, I don't care. I just expressed my opinion. If you're more happy
with httpd, it's your choice.
After pondering it a bit, I decided that I was just being lazy, and I like
apache2 better too.
- Why is the library not in /usr/bin as every other shared lib which is
load-time linked?
It seemed neater, and eliminating potential problems, to put it alongside
the only executable that needed it, so that it would be found independent
of PATH.
- Why is it called .so? I have no problems with run-time linked modules
called .so, we already have a couple of these, but I'm reluctant to call
load-time linked libs .so. Did you test it on 9x?
No, I said goodbye to my last 9x machine a *loooong* time ago.
I know for sure that
you can call executables "foo" instead of "foo.exe" on NT, but the same
doesn't work on 9x. What about load-time linked DLLs?
- Why are the *.dlla. and *.la files in /usr/sbin? They belong under
/usr/lib, don't they?
The .so naming was specifically to cause this, (it's the only way to stop
libtool from putting the dll in ../bin). The reason was to keep all of the
files related to this implementation detail in a single directory.
I understand what you are up to and the idea is neat. But you know that
cygwin1.dll is in /bin anyway. If the system can't find cygwin1.dll, it's
pretty much irrelevant if it finds cyghttpd2core.{so,dll}, isn't it?
I think it might be better to keep it in /bin and especially keep the dll
suffix to avoid any potential problem with 9x. You have been warned ;-)
True.
Fixed packages coming up soon.
Max.
