From: Petr Baudis Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 08:23:38 GMT Subject: Re: git binary directory? Message-ID: <20051106082338.GN1431@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <7v4q6q5ock.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Dear diary, on Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:36:59AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano told me that... > Kay Sievers writes: > > > Note that "libexec" is not LSB conform - whatever that means, but it > > should probably not be used for new projects. It states: "Applications > > may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib." > > I had an impression that there are still UNIXy systems that are > not even Linux; do they follow LSB and drop libexec? At least BSDs still seem to have libexec, but they are just as likely to have lib, I would say, while on Linux it is going away (not that I would be excited about it). So we could either make this per-system, or default to something that is going to be present everywhere (lib), I think. -- Petr "Pasky libdir=$(prefix)/lib/cogito" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.