Sergey Ilyevsky wrote these words on 03/08/05 15:59 CST:

> Is there any reason to give "--libdir=/lib" and after "make install"
> moving libs to /usr/lib ?
> Why not to give "--libdir=/usr/lib" ?

The login program is in /bin and it is linked to the shadow shared
library, so the shared library must go in /lib in case /usr is not
mounted.

The .a static library is moved to /usr/lib and the .so symlink is
created in /usr/lib to satisfy FHS requirements.

It could be the other way around, using --libdir=/usr/lib, in fact
that's how it used to be, but then you had to move the shadow shared
lib to /lib manually.

It was just changed recently to use --libdir. I don't know it really
makes any difference. However, bottom line is that parts of the
package will be in /usr/lib, other parts in /lib.

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Randy

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