On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Michael Tsang <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 September 2009 11:13:06 Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
> > hi, I'm just wondering, what's the purpose of moving the symlink in
> > '/lib/libz.so', and creating a '/usr/lib/libz.so' instead? FHS
> compliance?
> > LSB compliance? just because '/usr/lib' is first in the search path
> before
> > '/lib'?
> >
>
> Short answer: it is just for cleanness in /
> Long answer: *.so files are only needed at compile-time so they are better
> placed in /usr than in / . The dynamic loader finds libz.so.1
>
>
thanks, but I'm talking about /lib, vs /usr/lib? there is no libz.so at the
root ('/')
-jf
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