On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:42 PM, David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 08:16 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: >> The unversioned file (our symlink to the lib object in the root >> filesystem) is not used at runtime, only for development. For that >> reason it is placed in /usr, where the headers and development tools >> are, and the pkgconfig file tells where it can be found. > > Both glibc and glib2 does the same (at least on Fedora). The former > via ./configure (you need to set --slibdir=/lib there), the latter via > the Fedora spec file. FWIW, I want to teach glib2 about --slibdir too > since an increasing number of distros opt to ship the glib2 runtime > libraries in /lib instead of /usr/lib. Maybe udev could do something > similar, I don't know. You mean we should introduce a: --slibdir=/lib option, instead of using --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=""? Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
