On 12/14/20 8:14 PM, Hal Murray via devel wrote:
I think we should install such a file containing LIBDIR on systems where/etc/ld.so.conf.d/ is a directory.
No, please don't, for many reasons. If you attempt this, you're going to encounter a lot of pain points as you try to deal with exceptions for packaging scenarios (DESTDIR), non-system installs, etc.
If a distro isn't searching any /usr/local lib directory by default, any application with a shared library is going to have trouble. (Also, this is regardless of whether that application is using autotools, waf, or whatever.) Additionally, the distro is inherently inconsistent if they have /usr/local/bin in the PATH, but no /usr/local lib directory in the ld.so.conf search path. I'm perfectly content to tell people to configure their system in that case.
If we really want to do something to make that work out of the box, then I'd make the Python code search for the library in a fixed location (either instead of or in addition to the current behavior) and subst in LIBDIR. That way, the solution is application-local. Installing an application like NTPsec should not change global system state.
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