In the last episode (Apr 05), Michael Grünewald said:
> today I come to you with what seems to be somehow pedantic question: where
> is the best place to install libraries of shell functions.
>
> I read hier(4) carefully and it seems the correct place for this would
> be somewhere under `/usr/local/share':
>
> share/ architecture-independent files
>
> On the base systems, many macros (make templates and groff macros) are
> actually installed under /usr/share. However, the only library of shell
> functions I am aware of is `/etc/rc.subr', that landed on this funny
> location, probably to be pretty sure that this library is on the same
> filesystem as the scripts under /etc/rc.d.
>
> Several of the ports install shell scripts under `/usr/local/lib' that
> hier(4) devotes to ``shared and archive ar(1)-type libraries''. These
> shell scripts are:
The zsh port installs all its helper scripts and functions into
/usr/local/share/zsh , and the portupgrade and portmaster ports insert their
zsh autocompletion functions into /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions.
Seems to work great. Ports that install scripts into /usr/local/lib
probably either don't have separate script and lib install paths in their
makefile (tcl probably), or their scripts aren't meant to be called directly
(firefox).
--
Dan Nelson
dnel...@allantgroup.com
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