I've filled a bug at https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8345 . Please comment if I missed something.
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Nikolay Orlyuk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > I'd like to pickup discussion on this topic. > Currently ::mono repository of Exherbo places all architecture-independent > libraries under the $libdir (/usr/lib or /usr/lib64). > I agree with answer to the bug report > https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3650. > > According to description from > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Installation-Directory-Variables > : > datadir:The directory for installing idiosyncratic read-only > architecture-independent data. > libdir:The directory for installing object code libraries. > libexecdir: The directory for installing executables that other programs > run. > > From my point of view most suitable place among these is $datadir. And if > you'll look at the ::java repository you'll see that most of libraries puts > their jars under /usr/share folder. So I'd like to see ::mono follow the > same approach. > > I suspect that if we'll ask upstream for libdir patches with $libdir (set to > $prefix/lib) replaced by $datadir they will accept that (at least answer > should be different :) ). > > P.S. This mail initiated by need to write another (there is a lot of them > over this repo) libdir patch for ::mono package. > > Cheers > _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
