Re: Shared libs in non-standard locations
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 08:05:20PM -0500, Franklin Belew wrote:
> Section 4.3 of policy says nothing about the location of libraries.
> Section 12 of packaging manual says nothing about the location of libraries
>
> I would like to know what rules there are (if any) about shared libraries
> in locations not mentions in /etc/ld.so.conf or what debian considers
> "standard".
>
> For an example of this discrepency, see Bug ##42399
>
> the actual question is:
> Should packages be allowed to have private shared libraries in
> /usr/lib/<package>, and if not, should they install in /usr/lib, or just
> link statically to their own libraries?
>
> Frank aka Myth
See sections 3.6 and 4.5 of the FHS, found in
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/fhs/. Private shared libraries can,
indeed, live in /usr/lib/<package>, but ld.so won't know about them,
so unless the package knows about loading its own libraries, that's
not much use. (Apache is such a package.)
Julian
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