Matthias Koenig wrote:

Ludwig Nussel writes:

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A library required during system boot lives in /lib. Therefore one runs configure --lib=/%_lib which means all files get installed into /%_lib including the devel symlink *.so that point to the SONAME. Some packages manually move that symlink to /usr. Does that have any technical or cosmetic advantage?

Yes, there has been a technical problem I've been running into when moving the libs of of libgpg-error and libgcrypt. The static libs are not allowed to reside in /%_lib they have to be in %_libdir (Also the libtools .la files). Since the linker seems to search first in %_libdir and then in /%lib, it does not find the .so link when linking and links against the static lib, which is not what we want. Richard Guenther and Michael Matz also acknowledged that the .so devel link has to reside in /usr/%_lib. Maybe they know more about this.

Ok. However, pkgconfig files typically specify -L${libdir} in their linker flags which would result in -L/lib. So I guess it would actually make more sense to run configure with %_libdir and then move non-devel files to /lib instead of the other way around. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Development V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org

Robert Schiele wrote:

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:31:15AM +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote:

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Ok. However, pkgconfig files typically specify -L${libdir} in their linker flags which would result in -L/lib. So I guess it would actually make more sense to run configure with %_libdir and then move non-devel files to /lib instead of the other way around.

It depends on what your package actually contains:

- If your package only contains a library you might be right: [...] - If your package does contain executables or data es well, [...]

If the package uses autotools or if the makefiles are written with some care, then the two cases don't make much difference: you set --prefix to /usr and only handle --libdir one way or another (or --exec-prefix if you want also the binaries to be on the root partition). Michal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org