Re: [gentoo-dev] Two requests for ebuild maintainers+writers

[Travis Tilley <lv@gentoo.org>]

Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 August 2004 21:43, Travis Tilley wrote:
> 
>>I have two requests that will help to make my work incredibly easy. ;)
>>
>>1) start using $(get_libdir) wherever possible instead of referencing
>>lib directly. get_libdir is now part of the eutils eclass and is used by
>>gen_usr_ldscript in eutils. so, where previously it had:
> 
> 
> One question abou this. Currently java archives are instaled in /usr/lib. They 
> are obviously architecture independent. Should we still use $(get_libdir) for 
> those, or is there maybe an independent dir.
> 
> Paul
> 
> ps. As a sidenote, wouldn't it be better to also make the /usr part dynamic? 
> That makes package relocation fairly easy.


java is going to be stress if we have to support both a 64bit and 32bit 
jre... especially since azureus needs a 64bit SWT to work and such. i'd 
say that java stuff should probably not use $(get_libdir), or (almost) 
anything that ends up in /opt. that is, indeed, a good question that i 
hadnt thought of.

the chunk of the FHS that mentions lib64 notes that 64bit libraries 
should go there... so if it isnt a library and lives in lib, you might 
also not want to use $(get_libdir)... but that would all depend on how 
jstubbs eventually implements multilib dependency handling in portage, 
so it might just be safer to use $(get_libdir) even then to prevent file 
collisions. at the very least, it shouldnt cause problems on 
non-multilib systems since "$(get_libdir)" will always equal "lib" on 
them, and you dont have to worry about collisions. ;p

*pokes jstubbs*


Travis Tilley <lv@gentoo.org>

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