Re: installing shared libs in /sbin ...

[Andrew Clausen]

Timshel Knoll wrote:
> When I build parted, I install the executable in /sbin so that it is
> available before other file systems are mounted. However, this means
> that I also need libparted.so.x.x.x on the / filesystem, so I manually
> move that from /usr/lib to /lib before building the package.
> 
> Is it possible to specify different install paths for shared libs than
> static libs? libparted.a (and the libparted.so symlink) still need to be
> in /usr/lib ... It might be overly complex to try to implement this, but
> hey .... I thought I'd bring it up anyway...

Isn't this a packaging issue?  Anyway, I don't think it will break
anything havine the .so and .a separate.  That said, it looks like
the convention is to stick .a's in /lib

Andrew Clausen