On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 14:31 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 11.05.2010 14:24, schrieb Jan de Groot: > > On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 23:17 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> This moves the shared library from /usr/lib to /lib, so that dynamically > >> linked cryptsetup works before /usr is mounted. > >> > > > > libgcrypt.so is in both /lib and /usr/lib. IMHO there should be only > > a .so in /usr/lib, not /lib. > > Hm, does it matter? We did the same for popt and libgpg-error - and all > other libraries I moved to /lib manually so far. The way I did it, it is > simpler in the PKGBUILD, as you only move libfoo.so* to /lib and then > symlink the .so file - you don't have to know the library version here. > > The only thing that is really necessary is this: You must have the .so > in /usr/lib, otherwise the .a will be used and gcc/ld will always link > the library statically.
It doesn't harm I think, but why would my /lib looks like symlink-heaven if there's no need to?

