[Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot/package/bzip2
Hans-Christian Egtvedt
hcegtvedt at atmel.com
Fri Mar 7 08:24:54 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 11:01 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 12:56:09AM +0100, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Hamish Moffatt" <hamish at cloud.net.au>
> > To: <buildroot at uclibc.org>
> > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 12:47 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot/package/bzip2
> >
> > > Why move libbz2 from /lib to /usr/lib?
> >
> >
> > I think that this has been the trend for the last year.
> > A lot of packages has had this change.
>
> I think some sort of policy document would be useful here. If libbz2 is
> in /usr/lib, that means no binaries in /bin or /sbin should use it
> really.
>
Agreed.
Applications in /bin and /sbin which are dynamic linked must find their
libraries in /lib.
> Is /usr really irrelevant on a buildroot-sized system anyway? Should we
> just put everything in /lib, /bin and /sbin and forget it? (Perhaps even
> bin and sbin should merge.)
>
No, some embedded systems have multiple flash partitions, and might use
one for /usr stuff and another for / stuff.
And please do not merge /bin and /sbin;
1. you must change a whole lot of Makefiles (make install)
2. some systems actually have multiple users ;)
--
With kind regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt, Applications Engineer
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