Re: [gentoo-dev] standards/conventions? (LDPATH, include files)

[Zach Forrest]

Thanks.

Dan Armak wrote:

> On Thursday 06 December 2001 22:47, you wrote:
>
>>Missed one thing...
>>
>>When should a file be added to env.d? The package I'm putting together,
>>by default, puts its libraries in /usr/lib? I've noticed that packages
>>like mozilla put their libraries in something like /usr/lib/mozilla/lib.
>>I know when unpacking mozilla it stores its libraries in the lib
>>subdirectory of mozilla, so would this be an indication of when to add a
>>file to env.d? In other words, should I accept the default location and
>>then, if the default is not the standard /usr/lib, add a file to env.d?
>>
> Generally speaking you put a file in /etc/env.d whenever you want to change a
> global environment variable, mainly for extending various PATH settings. But
> yuo already know that. In the case of LDPATH, use a /etc/env.d file to add
> your libdir to LDPATH if it's in a non-standard location.
>
> As to how to decide where to install: use /usr if at all possible. Use
> something like /usr/lib/yourlib/lib (like mozilla does) if:
> a. Your package has a non standard dir structure (i.e. ither than ./bin,
> ./lib, ./include...)
> b. Various versions of your package are likely to be installed, and can't
> live in one dir.
> c. Any other good reason.
>
>