Hello Reuben, * Reuben Thomas wrote on Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 03:21:54PM CET: > Hence, I write here to ask whether for projects written in languages > whose executable format is machine-independent (typically, because > it's textual), it would not make sense to support installation of > executables on a path derived from --prefix, not --exec-prefix? (It > doesn't seem necessary to invent a third prefix.)
I see some value in this, but note that even scripts often depend on system-specifics in a way that would make this directory unsuitable for sharing between different architectures. For example, automake is a perl script that however depends on where perl is installed and what features this version and configuration of perl offers. It thus cannot reside in this machine-independent directory, unfortunately. Many other nontrivial scripts I know are similar. Those that are not, are typically fairly small, thus sharing would seem to maybe have an organizational advantage, but the space saving aspect would be minimal. Cheers, Ralf
