moving libhandle to /usr
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at sandeen.net
Tue Oct 6 19:53:18 CDT 2009
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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..
argh I did rpm -ql xfsprogs xfsdump | grep bin ... on a box that didn't
have xfsdump installed. Argh.
Thanks for the catch Mike ;)
-Eric
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