On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, David Faure wrote: > Well OK, appending /Qt/libexec to every entry in LD_LIBRARY_PATH (plus default > library paths like /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 somehow...)
Somehow I feel a bit uneasy about a global search such as this. See below. >> I meant if a 64-bit library (/usr/lib64/libfoo) can use a 32-bit helper >> application (/usr/lib/foo/libexec/bar). Or to put it simply: where should >> the 64-bit helper be installed: /usr/lib or /usr/lib64? > > I would say it should be in the same place as the library. But that in turn > leads to the question of how to know where the library is :-) > > I am a bit surprised that all this isn't already specified anywhere. Well, > probably because individual apps just like into their install prefix, while > we're aiming for something more generic here. Do we have to? Isn't the "individual apps" part exactly what makes up libexec? Shouldn't the search be tied to an application - or rather library? Instead of a global search it'd be a search based on a hint for a relative offset. Harri. _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
