On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 03:44:05PM +1000, skaller wrote: > Where should a required object file be put? > > File in question is a mainline stub, associated with a > static archive, program is built by linking it with > the archive and user object file.
If I were upstream, I would probably put it inside the static archive using ar. If that is not desirable, e.g. because there are two upstreams, I would make it a separate static archive, using ar. However, if upstream doesn't do that and you want other sources which use this method of linking to keep building without modification (unlikely anyway, as the library path is not searched for object files), I think it should go in /usr/lib/package/, like other (platform dependant) package helper files. I suppose this is a -dev package btw? If you're packaging the compiled program, the object file and the static library are both no longer needed, as they are statically included in the executable (as far as needed by it), so you don't need to put them in the package at all. > The archive is in /usr/lib, should the .o go there too? I think only libraries should go in /usr/lib. A directory like that gets pretty unreadable, because it's so full of stuff, but the fact that the compiler can find things there is worth it. However, as it won't find object files there (unless specifically pointed to it), putting them there anyway would just be obscure IMO. However, IANADD, so I could be wrong. :-) Bye, Bas Wijnen -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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