Re: Where to have my .so files install?

2008-04-19 Thread Mel 
On Saturday 19 April 2008 02:47:28 cpghost wrote:
 On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:24:09 -0400

 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Adam J Richardson wrote:
   Hi all.
  
   I'm writing a program which uses .so files as plugins. Now I need
   to decide where on the filesystem to install the plugins. I don't
   want to clutter the system locations like /lib and /usr/lib. Can
   anyone suggest a decent install location? Google doesn't help much
   with this.
  
   TiA,
   Adam J Richardson
 
  /usr/local/lib

 To expand a bit: don't put your own stuff in /lib or /usr/lib,
 since this is used by FreeBSD's userland itself. On FreeBSD,
 third party stuff goes into /usr/local/{lib,bin,etc,...}.
 See hier(7).

I actually put my own stuff in /opt, which follows /usr/local layout, because 
ports use /usr/local and I don't want to risk some port installing over or 
deleting (part of) my apps.
It's easy to set up:
mkdir /opt
mtree -ude -f /etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist -p /opt

Add /opt/bin, /opt/sbin to path in /etc/login.conf.
Add /opt/man to OPTIONAL_MANPATH in /etc/manpath.config
Add a MANPATH_MAP in there too.
Delete the users' .profile line that overrides the PATH variable (I really 
wish they'd take that outof the skel).
Add /opt/etc/rc.d to local_startup in /etc/rc.conf
Add /opt/lib to ldconfig_paths in /etc/rc.conf
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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Re: Where to have my .so files install?

2008-04-19 Thread Gordon devel 
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:21:25AM +0200, Mel wrote:
   Adam J Richardson wrote:
Hi all.
   
I'm writing a program which uses .so files as plugins. Now I need
to decide where on the filesystem to install the plugins. I don't
want to clutter the system locations like /lib and /usr/lib. Can
anyone suggest a decent install location? Google doesn't help much
with this.

When I'm developing stuff, I often put everything in ${HOME}/local.  You
will probably have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to ${HOME}/local/lib for the
linker to see the libraries.  When I am satisfied that I have a mature
application or libary, I install to /usr/local.

Happy coding!
Gordon
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Where to have my .so files install?

2008-04-18 Thread Adam J Richardson 

Hi all.

I'm writing a program which uses .so files as plugins. Now I need to 
decide where on the filesystem to install the plugins. I don't want to 
clutter the system locations like /lib and /usr/lib. Can anyone suggest 
a decent install location? Google doesn't help much with this.


TiA,
Adam J Richardson
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Re: Where to have my .so files install?

2008-04-18 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman 

Adam J Richardson wrote:

Hi all.

I'm writing a program which uses .so files as plugins. Now I need to 
decide where on the filesystem to install the plugins. I don't want to 
clutter the system locations like /lib and /usr/lib. Can anyone 
suggest a decent install location? Google doesn't help much with this.


TiA,
Adam J Richardson
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Re: Where to have my .so files install?

2008-04-18 Thread cpghost 
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:24:09 -0400
Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Adam J Richardson wrote:
  Hi all.
 
  I'm writing a program which uses .so files as plugins. Now I need
  to decide where on the filesystem to install the plugins. I don't
  want to clutter the system locations like /lib and /usr/lib. Can
  anyone suggest a decent install location? Google doesn't help much
  with this.
 
  TiA,
  Adam J Richardson

 /usr/local/lib

To expand a bit: don't put your own stuff in /lib or /usr/lib,
since this is used by FreeBSD's userland itself. On FreeBSD,
third party stuff goes into /usr/local/{lib,bin,etc,...}.
See hier(7).

As to plugins: if you've got many of them, it's better to group
them in a subdirectory of /usr/local/lib:
  /usr/local/lib/${YOUR_PROGNAME}/*.so
and dlopen(3) them using this path.

-cpghost

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