On 22 Feb 2006, at 17:42, Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
On Feb 22, 2006, at 2:22 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
Jeremy Cowgar said that he had problems because the base library
creates/uses a user defaults database, and he didn't want it doing
that... so I spent a little while making that behavior
optional ... and you can pick up the new version from svn.
It was also due to libraries being in odd places and Apache not
knowing where to find them. It would have been much easier if there
was a /usr/lib/libgnustep-base.so or something like that.
I boggled when I read that ... then realised that my initial
incomprehension was due to 20+ years experience programming on unix
style systems ... it simply didn't occur to me that copying the
library from one directory to another would be an issue for a
developer (for a user, yes). GNUstep is by no means alone in putting
its libraries in its own directories ... many packages (ssh, postgres
etc) use their own subdirectories.
I really don't know how to address that as a problem. Of course we
could provide a script to copy the library ... but then people would
need to know about the script. And documentation is presumably not
the issue, since there is already documentation telling you how to
set up the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable or /etc/ld.so.conf
Maybe all we really need here is FHS support in the make package so
you can opt to install in FHS locations? And lots of publicity so
people know about it.
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