On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 10:33:21PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Andreas Metzler > <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote: > >> What's the problem with fixing automake? > > > > Hello, > > > > in a nutshell: I doubt anybody who has the knowledge to fix it cares, > > and there is more to it than a > > --with-stuff-usually-in-libdir-but-we-want-it-below-urs=/usr/lib. > > Installing it there is simple, making use of the installed files is not. > > > > Have you ever written a pkgconfig file that properly handles the use case > > where the static library lives lives in a different directory than the > > dynamic one? (And don't limit yourself to directories in the linker > > search path.) > > I've never used pkgconfig. But if it doesn't support it, it too should be fixed. To be fair to pkg-config, it's kind of an unusual requirement. Possibly even a broken requirement. An alternative strategy to consider for the future: drop /usr entirely and place all libraries in /lib [as done on GNU/Hurd]. On current systems using initramfs the need for a separate / and /usr is gone. IMHO, there are nowadays few (if any) compelling reasons for having a separate /usr, and hence for having /usr at all other than as a compatibility symlink to /. Have we actually got any reasons for keeping it? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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