2011/2/8 Philip Brown <[email protected]>: > 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 ,
No, it isn't. Our prefix is /opt/csw, and a subdirectory underneath it is not our prefix. If a maintainer uses a custom --prefix setting, it's most probably because of file conflicts in /opt/csw/bin, and --bindir=/opt/csw/bin/specialdir would suffice. There are also other ways of achieving this goal. As it stands in the proposal, a way to support multiple versions is outside the scope. > 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. The proposal, as it stands now, allows such symlinks to be made, if there are reasons to do that. > Plus the issue about keeping "du -k" output consistent within the > program files for a prefix. This issue is considered irrelevant. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
