On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Viktor Szakáts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes it is, and this is the only way we can somewhat assure
> that users not wanting to use system locations for Harbour
> also get working builds, while users installing to system
> location will get their shared-mode binaries.
>
> Having shared mode binaries in non-system locations don't work
> without extra manual steps.
> Having non-shared binaries in system location is against the
> idea of *nixes and *nix user preferences.
>
> Hence we have this trick. Notice you can override this default
> behavior anytime.
I understand your aim to have a "one fit all " *nix setup but IMHO
it'll will be hard to achieve.
Casual users should be pointed to make_{deb,rpm,tgz}.sh while others
should know what is /etc/profile.d and /etc/ld.so.conf.d.
best regards,
Lorenzo
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