On Tue, Jan 16, Ludwig Nussel wrote: > Hi, > > A library required during system boot lives in /lib. Therefore one runs > configure --lib=/%_lib which means all files get installed into > /%_lib including the devel symlink *.so that point to the SONAME. > Some packages manually move that symlink to /usr. Does that have any > technical or cosmetic advantage?
Technical: /usr/%_lib is the place where the linker searches, it does not need to search in /lib cosmetical: Don't clobber /lib with files we don't need there, especially not with static libraries. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = 8C6B FD92 EE0F 42ED F91A 6A73 6D1A 7F05 2E59 24BB --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
