On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:40:22PM +0200, Oystein Viggen wrote: > Hi > > Would it be true to the spirit of hurd and the /usr -> . symlink to have > /X11R6/lib be a symlink to ../lib?
X11R6 shouldn't exist even on Linux, if you ask me. I am all for it. > That way, most libraries would end > up in /lib, which should sort out the problems people have been seing > with setuid applications like xterm for which LD_LIBRARY_PATH won't, and > indeed shouldn't, work. It will worsen the dpkg-shlibdeps problem, but that's not so big an issue. Just go for it, and let us know if you expect any problems or if you don't. > What do you people think? I am considering manually doing it for my own > installation, but as I mainly use it to test-build packages for hurd, I > don't want to stray too far from the standard installation... I can send you a dpkg-shlibdeps which will be functional but spit out a lot of warnings. If there are no actual file conflicts which introduce bugs, you shouldn't notice a difference. But then, unexpected things may happen. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
