On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 12:24 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Koen Kooi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Op 14 mei 2012, om 15:47 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven: > > > >> The pkgconfig files need to be installed in ${libdir} instead of > >> ${base_libdir}. > > > > Thanks for the patch, I was working on something similar :) I talked > with the kmod and udev people and they asked why we want kmod libs > in /lib instead of /usr/lib. I didn't have an answer to that, does > anyone else have a decent one? If not, let's not mess with $prefix and > remove all the do_install changes. > > OE-Core try to allow the use of /usr in a separated partition so it > seems it is a requirement for it to work in initrdless systems.
I've heard requests from people that / be bootable with /usr being mounted later. For something like kmod, there is therefore a case for putting the library in base_libdir, not libdir. Not doing so sounds like a bit of a cop-out from the maintainers. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
