Hi Jan, The FHS docs talk about /usr/lib64 for 64bit, but in all it's discussion of /usr/local it only discusses /usr/local/lib there is absolutely no mention of /use/local/lib64. So rather than ambiguous it just doesn't say anything other than /usr/local/lib for locally installed libs.
The LSB discussions are also just about /usr/lib and /usr/lib64. I haven't spotted anything about /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/lib yet. Debian/Ubuntu do now use /usr/local/lib64, but with a with the symbolic link to from /usr/lib to /usr/lib64 I presume for package compatibility. As general principle I believe putting 64bit libs in /usr/local/lib64 is more consistent than putting them in /usr/local/lib, but as yet I've seen no evidence that the LSB or other docs say that the standard for locally installed 64 bit libs is /usr/local/lib64, asserting that /usr/local/lib64 is an official standard for 64 doesn't look to be substantiated. The only concrete info I have so far is that (K)Ubuntu (and probably debian) only add /usr/local to the ld.so.conf setup even for 64bit builds. What do other distribution do? -- W.r.t practicality of copying a openscenegraph.conf, this would require a /etc/ld.so.conf.d directory to exist and /etc/ld.so.conf that includes all entries in this directory. I only have Kubuntu boxes here so can only check locally what these use, I need feedback from others that what there systems use. As a change to our build system, and to what we install, copying such a file is more of intrusive a change than installing to /usr/local/lib rather than /usr/local/lib64. Moving to using rpm or debian for install is an even bigger step, as it would no longer be about a local install of the software into /usr/local but a full install into system directories, and is conceptually different from a conventional make install that developers will be used to. The is also a big question of how mature the debian/rpm support is in CPack. I'm all for creating such packaging when CPack is ready, but I believe this type of install is quite distinct from a developer installing libs s/he builds. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
