moving libhandle to /usr
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Tue Oct 6 18:44:25 CDT 2009
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:33:46PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 October 2009 11:42:49 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Currently we install the versioned libhandle into /lib by default,
> > and all other libraries into /usr. Given that no program in / actually
> > uses libhandle this seems rather awkward to me. From Mike's comments
> > in the past I think Gentoo already installs it into /usr anyway.
> >
> > Is there anything speaking against moving all libraries to /usr and
> > switching Debian/Fedora to that aswell?
>
> xfsdump uses it and xfsdump is installed into / by default right ? so
> libhandle needs to be in /lib so long as xfsdump is in /sbin.
Indeed, the makefile configuration currently builds it into /, while
the configure default uses /usr. Yikes..
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