Ivan Kabaivanov wrote: > On Saturday 12 November 2011 15:28:35 Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ivan Kabaivanov wrote: >>> I must be doing something wrong, so please someone confirm or refute >>> this: >>> >>> coreutils-8.14 as per the 7.0 book installs >>> /usr/libexec/coreutils/libstdbuf.so. I had to pass >>> --libexecdir=/usr/lib in chaper 6 in order to fix the location as >>> /usr/lib/coreutils/libstdbuf.so. >> It is in /usr/libexec/coreutils/libstdbuf.so on my reference system. So >> far, I haven't run into any problems. >> >> Doing a grep for libstdbuf in /usr/bin shows the only application using >> it is /usr/bin/stdbuf and that knows where it is. >> >> I wasn't aware of this. It does seem out of place, but it also doesn't >> seem to do any harm. >> >> Here is a relevant thread: >> >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.general/1770 >> >> If it doesn't go in /usr/libexec/coreutils/, the issue is where does it >> go? The devs seem to think that it should not be a library directory. >> >> The FHS says that /usr/lib<qual> is OK, but I think that is really for >> /usr/lib64, /usr/lib32, etc. libexec is not mentioned in the FHS. >> >> -- Bruce > > > yeah, it's a strange bird: > > /usr/lib/coreutils/libstdbuf.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, > version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped > > Looks like a library.
Sorta. It doesn't show up with ldd. > The weird thing is that the instructions in chapter 6 > (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/coreutils.html) > say > this in section 6.23.2. Contents of Coreutils: > > > Installed library: libstdbuf.so > Installed directory: /usr/lib/coreutils I made a change to that in the description in -dev. Thanks for pointing that out. > So whoever wrote this seemed to think it belonged in /usr/lib. > > I'll stick with /usr/lib/coreutils too. Your distro. :) -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
