On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 02:15:25PM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: > The arch independent/dependent is much clearer IMHO, and is the > vocabulary used by the FHS, AFAIK. It is certainly the one used by the > configure script help: > > --libdir=DIR object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib] > --datarootdir=DIR read-only arch.-independent data root > [PREFIX/share] > --datadir=DIR read-only architecture-independent data > [DATAROOTDIR]
The FHS, just like autoconf, does say that datadir must be arch-independent. But AFAIK they never say that libdir is not allowed to be architecture independent. But I'm suspecting this is very much off-topic by now. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
