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Re: Installation directory for shared libs
From: |
John Leuner |
Subject: |
Re: Installation directory for shared libs |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:19:22 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.3.27i |
> > Why are the classpath shared libraries installed into $prefix/lib/classpath
> > ?
> >
> > How do I configure the build to install them in $prefix/lib ?
>
> This is due to the use of pkglib_LTLIBRARIES in Makefile.am. We could
> have used lib_LTLIBRARIES instead and you would get them in
> $prefix/lib. In this case we'd probably have to rename the libraries
> to avoid name collisions.
What collisions do you anticipate?
What names would you suggest?
cp-javaio
cp-javalang ..
?
> This also means that if you wanted to
> package Classpath with a JVM that updating just classpath requires
> more intimate knowledge of the libraries we create rather than just
> looking in the lib/classpath directory.
Do you mean putting the JVM and Classpath in one package?
The reason I bring all this up is because it seems the preferred way to do
things (at least on Debian) is to install shared libraries in the standard
search path.
John Leuner