On 2023-10-29 07:01:07 -0700, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > Sebastian, > > I'm fairly certian Robin Gareus made it quite clear what Jeremy was saying > in his reply: > > >The LV2 FHS that Jeremy mention can be found at > >https://lv2plug.in/pages/filesystem-hierarchy-standard.html > > > >Now you may not like, or disagree with the official standard, but breaking > it is not acceptable. This affects various >3rd party software, notably > Reaper, Harrison Mixbus, Ardour and other non-free DAWs that expect LV2 > plugins in >/usr/lib/lv2/
> > > >LV2s are to be installed $PREFIX/lib/lv2 (unrelated to $LIBDIR). > >Most LV2 plugin build systems use LV2DIR = $PREFIX/lib/lv2 for this. > > This does divert from the standard location in which shared libraries are > expected to be located, but LV2 plugins, as you are aware, are not normal > shared libraries. If they cannot be found in /usr/lib/lv2, then it literally > breaks the functionality of several DAWs out there, including Ardour (which > we ship). Sure, users can always manually add the search path of > /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/lv2 to the software, but that's an > unnecessary inconvenience. lilv does not install LV2 plugins. If other packages abuse lilv's libdir as base to determine LV2DIR, those packages are buggy. As you explain above, it's not $libdir/lv2 but $prefix/lib/lv2 that's to be used. > I checked the salsa repo for liblilv (and another) and it seems as though > /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/lv2 is being intentionally set as the install > location here, so this simply needs to be reverted. I can even set-up the > pull request. Please point me to the place where this is set as install location. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
