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

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 14.08.2012 03:24, Olivier Crête wrote:
> 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) !
>

+1, that's correct.