On 09/30/2014 01:57 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> Le 30/09/2014 10:18, Richard Coffee a écrit :
>> I have a question involving the methodology used in installing the
>> readline package.
>>
>> The instructions read:
>>
>> mv -v /usr/lib/lib{readline,history}.so.* /lib
>> ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libreadline.so)
>> /usr/lib/libreadline.so
>> ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libhistory.so )
>> /usr/lib/libhistory.so
>>
>> I was wondering why this was chosen, rather than just using
>> '--libdir=/lib' in the configure step.  Would not the end result be
>> the same?  Or is there something else going on that I am unaware of? 
>> I am just curious....
>>
> I guess the reason is to keep the static libraries in /usr/lib. But I am
> not sure it is the whole story.
> Pierre
> 

Static libs, non-versioned .so files and pkgconfig directory (not for
readline but for other packages that use simliar syntax).

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