On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:03:47PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:48:21PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > >> No, you should *not* put libraries into subdirectories of /usr/lib > >> unnecessarily. > > > Policy prefers it for this case: > > > 10.2: > > | Shared object files (often .so files) that are not public libraries, > > | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > | that is, they are not meant to be linked to by third party > > | executables (binaries of other packages), should be installed in > > | subdirectories of the /usr/lib directory. Such files are exempt from > > | the rules that govern ordinary shared libraries, except that they > > | must not be installed executable and should be stripped.[57] > > > Is there a better way than using rpath? > > Yes, installing the libraries in /usr/lib. For such packages with libraries without sonames, one should just make something up?
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