Re: Lilypond in Mac OS X Terminal

[Hans Aberg]

On 12 Dec 2012, at 23:50, Eric Pancer wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Hans Aberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 12 Dec 2012, at 21:16, Eric Pancer wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:14 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> The libexec route appears to cater for all of that.  We should use bin
>>>> just for executables supposed to be entry points of LilyPond.
>>> 
>>> Please, no!
>>> 
>>> From man 1 hier
>>>                 libexec/  system daemons & system utilities (executed by
>>>                            other programs)
>> ...
>>>                local/    executables, libraries, etc. not included by the
>>>                            basic operating system
>> 
>> There is a Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
>>  http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
>>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
> 
> Right, like hier(1) describes. FHS looks to be rather Linux-specific.
> Correct me if I'm wrong.

Linux is a strictly speaking a kernel, like Mac OS X is running the kernel 
Mach, often combined with what is called GNU OS. Mac OS X derives originally 
from FreeBSD.

As for the standard, it is a development of BSD old traditions. So a similar 
origin of OSs make them putting stuff in similar places, but with some 
differences.

As for the POSIX/UNIX standards, they have no so such requirements, so in 
general, there can be quite some variation.

Hans