On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My preference, as the whole point of this proposal is to have more >> libraries available in /opt/csw/lib, is to prefer the files to be >> placed in /opt/csw/lib and the symlinks (if any) to be in >> /opt/csw/special/lib/. >> >> Does anyone think this should be the opposite by default? > > yes. I've already written this, AND I've already written why. > Because that is the "normal" way that programs install things, when > you compile with > configure --prefix=/opt/csw/prefix > > That is the "normal" location ,therefore that should be the "real" location. > This is consistent with standard behaviour. For example, > /usr/openwin/lib. that is/was the "real" location of the libX11 > libraries, but for convenience, symlinks were made from other > locations pointing to there. > We are in the same situation. We basically want a reference in > /opt/csw/lib, for convenience. >
I concur. Libraries should be placed in their package specific subdirectory as the package install would have it. For convenience, a symlink from our global library directory (/opt/cw/lib) should be made to the actual file. The primary reason being that this allows easier integration of multiple versions. If you reverse this and force the actual library into /opt/csw/lib then you will have to move this library to its package/versioned subdirectory before overwriting. This would be a logistical nightmare. As to libraries with SONAME collisions I don't know whether its better to not create any symlinks or always create symlinks to the newest version (or possibly last installed). Its a coin toss between problems finding libraries during builds and the possibility that you'll break an existing application by installing a newer version of the library. Having said that, I guess I would lean towards operational stability and not create any symlinks. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
