Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: multilib-strict no longer in FEATURES of targets/developer/make.defaults (pending on bug 424423)

["Olivier Crête" <tester@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 17:56 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev
> <tetromino@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 11:14 -0700, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> >> Beside the fact that these would probably have looked better in
> >> /usr/libexec
> >
> > See Kay Sievers's comment at
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51617 :
> >
> > "/usr/lib/<pkgname>/ is a directory like /usr/libexec/ or even /bin. It
> > shares absolutely zero things with the arch-specific $libdir ,or lib64/.
> >
> > /usr/lib/<pkgname>/ is the canonical "application private directory". It
> > has the multi-lib or arch-specific rules as /bin.
> >
> 
> So... where should GRUB2 be installing its modules? Currently they get
> installed in /usr/$(get_libdir)/grub/$cpu-$platform, where cpu and
> platform are determined by use flags.
> 
> Should we drop the get_libdir and put them in /usr/lib/grub instead?
> Should I even worry about it?

There really have no reason to be in $(get_libdir) as they're not
compiled for the platform implied by $(get_libdir) !

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Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer

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