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On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 17:56 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev |
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> <tetromino@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 11:14 -0700, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: |
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> >> Beside the fact that these would probably have looked better in |
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> >> /usr/libexec |
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> > |
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> > See Kay Sievers's comment at |
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> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51617 : |
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> > |
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> > "/usr/lib/<pkgname>/ is a directory like /usr/libexec/ or even /bin. It |
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> > shares absolutely zero things with the arch-specific $libdir ,or lib64/. |
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> > |
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> > /usr/lib/<pkgname>/ is the canonical "application private directory". It |
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> > has the multi-lib or arch-specific rules as /bin. |
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> > |
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> |
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> So... where should GRUB2 be installing its modules? Currently they get |
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> installed in /usr/$(get_libdir)/grub/$cpu-$platform, where cpu and |
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> platform are determined by use flags. |
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> |
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> Should we drop the get_libdir and put them in /usr/lib/grub instead? |
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> Should I even worry about it? |
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There really have no reason to be in $(get_libdir) as they're not |
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compiled for the platform implied by $(get_libdir) ! |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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