[csw-maintainers] Shared library placement proposal

[Peter FELECAN]

Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>
>> My preference, as the whole point of this proposal is to have more
>> libraries available in /opt/csw/lib, is to prefer the files to be
>> placed in /opt/csw/lib and the symlinks (if any) to be in
>> /opt/csw/special/lib/.
>>
>> Does anyone think this should be the opposite by default?
>
> yes. I've already written this, AND I've already written why.
> Because that is the "normal" way that programs install things, when
> you compile with
>  configure --prefix=/opt/csw/prefix
>
> That is the "normal" location ,therefore that should be the "real" location.
> This is consistent with standard behaviour. For example,
> /usr/openwin/lib. that is/was the "real" location of the libX11
> libraries, but for convenience, symlinks were made from other
> locations pointing to there.

The OpenWinndows situation is special and the historical reasons are well
known. The migration toward a "vanilla" X11 makes that obsolete. We
don't need that.

> We are in the same situation. We basically want a reference in
> /opt/csw/lib, for convenience.
>
> Plus the issue about keeping "du -k" output consistent within the
> program files for a prefix.

This disk usage argument seems to me so lame that I'm abstaining from
comment.

-- 
Peter