Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r31321 - in /tools/make/trunk: ChangeLog GNUstep.conf.in configure configure.ac

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 17 Sep 2010, at 09:47, Nicola Pero wrote:

> I thought about this last night ...
> 
>> IMO our default (of course we need to be able to choose other alternatives 
>> easily, but I think you have already make gnustep-make support that) should 
>> be to install things in native locations so they work with no further effort.
>> As Truls Becken pointed out yesterday, that might mean having gnustep-make 
>> run ldconfig (or equivalent) when installing libraries and frameworks as 
>> well as just putting things in the 'right' place.
> 
> Well, if /usr/local/lib is not in ld.so.conf (it isn't by default on most 
> Linux distributions), running ldconfig won't help.  

Really?  I would suggest that distributions which don't have /usr/local/lib in 
ld.so.conf  do not use/conform to the FHS ... so those distributions are ones 
where we would need to use another layout as the 'native' standard.

Remember, I'm not advocating switching to FHS as the default ... I'm advocating 
switching to using the native layout as our default.  For systems where FHS is 
not native, we would need to add another layout file.

My assumption though is that FHS is the best fallback for systems we don't know 
a specific layout for ... as it seems to be the most common standard.