-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAko2OpYACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAThgCfRyrFADfHLKlhaBZfaXtuS7/l rPMAoIwotHbIOAWjTg+p3k38+YzNT1yj =5MhP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----