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Re: installing shared libs in /sbin ...
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: installing shared libs in /sbin ... |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:07:22 +1000 |
Timshel Knoll wrote:
> When I build parted, I install the executable in /sbin so that it is
> available before other file systems are mounted. However, this means
> that I also need libparted.so.x.x.x on the / filesystem, so I manually
> move that from /usr/lib to /lib before building the package.
>
> Is it possible to specify different install paths for shared libs than
> static libs? libparted.a (and the libparted.so symlink) still need to be
> in /usr/lib ... It might be overly complex to try to implement this, but
> hey .... I thought I'd bring it up anyway...
Isn't this a packaging issue? Anyway, I don't think it will break
anything havine the .so and .a separate. That said, it looks like
the convention is to stick .a's in /lib
Andrew Clausen