On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 06:34:30PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 17:11:17 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Afaicr I've never seen this documentented somewhere to do it this way and I'm > > wondering if this is indeed the agreed upon best practice and if we should > > document it somehow (policy, devref, whatever). > Yes. Arguably it's covered under > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#LIBESSENTIALSHAREDLIBRARIESANDKERN I don't think there's much room for argument at all, the FHS definition of /lib is pretty clear. :) Yes, this does cause problems for autotools and the like when it comes time to install, since this FHS-mandated split between /usr/lib and /lib isn't directly supported by automake. A burden we must bear, unless someone wants to fix automake. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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