libexecdir

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Jun 15 13:50:00 GMT 2009


On Jun 15 06:12, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Corinna Vinschen on 6/10/2009 10:50 AM:
> > If FHS defines /usr/lib for libexecdir then I have no problems changing
> > this for Cygwin as well.  It shouldn't even have any user-visible effect.
> 
> And for the few packages where it does matter, the packager can provide an
> override in the .cygport file (just as I am now ending up doing to switch
> libexecdir to /usr/lib as an override in my git.cygport).  I'm in favor of
> making this change in cygport.

If there's no good reason NOT(*) to switch libexecdir to /usr/lib, I'll
change the documentation on http://cygwin.com/setup.html tomorrow.


Corinna

(*) Aren't double negations lovely?

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