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Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:55:44 +0100 |
> This is actually wrong (but only for libexecdir), most packages
> install under:
>
> $(libexecdir)/PACKAGE/MACHINE/VERSION/
>
> if they install in a subdirectory in /libexec (emacs, and gcc are
> prime examples). MACHINE is the GNU machine tripple.
To claim that ``most packages'' do that, you need a better
statistics than 2 examples, even if they are ``prime''.
I meant compared to $(libexecdir)/PACKAGE, not compared to
$(libexecdir). From the few packages that actually use libexecdir at
all, only emacs and gcc put files in
$(libexecdir)/PACKAGE/MACHINE/VERSION/, where all others put files
directly in $(libexecdir), and none put files in
$(libexecdir)/PACKAGE. So "most" applies here.
(And while at that, please try not to change the
conventions/instructions too frequently, even if the current
conventions seem not 100% right.
So one should ignore fixes that are warrented if someone finds them
out frequently? That is silly...
The recent changes made it all but impossible to predict where a
particular package will put its data files and subprograms, since
it depends on what version of the standards the package maintainer
succeeded to pick up. That's BAD, IMHO.
That is a bullet that has to be bitten once in a while; and I'm still
chewing on the one for --datarootdir/--localedir/--lispdir...
Cheers!
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, (continued)
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/02/07
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/02/08
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/02/08
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Karl Berry, 2005/02/08
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/02/08
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/02/08
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/02/08
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/02/08
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Bruce Korb, 2005/02/08
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/02/09
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly,
Alfred M. Szmidt <=
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/02/09
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/02/09
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Chris F.A. Johnson, 2005/02/09
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/02/09
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/02/10
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/02/11
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/02/11
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/02/09
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/02/09
- Re: libexecdir/datadir used incorrectly, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/02/10