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Re: libexecdir
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According to Corinna Vinschen on 6/10/2009 10:50 AM:
>> OTOH IMHO this is incorrect:
>>
>> * libexec programs are not meant for direct execution by any user; sbin
>> programs are (by superuser).
>> * libexec is often deep, which AFAIK /usr/sbin should not be per FHS.
>>
>> There are a few other ways of handling libexec:
>>
>> 1) GNU autotools uses /usr/libexec. The problem is that is not
>> FHS-compliant, which we generally try to be.
>>
>> 2) Default to /usr/lib. This will do the right thing when a package
>> wants a subdir of libexecdir (e.g. git, gnupg, octave), but
>> libexec_PROGRAMS will probably want to override that with a subdir
>> thereof.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> If FHS defines /usr/lib for libexecdir then I have no problems changing
> this for Cygwin as well. It shouldn't even have any user-visible effect.
And for the few packages where it does matter, the packager can provide an
override in the .cygport file (just as I am now ending up doing to switch
libexecdir to /usr/lib as an override in my git.cygport). I'm in favor of
making this change in cygport.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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