On Tue, 10 May 2005, 13:19, lin q (as lq) wrote: > lq: I am in Chapter 6 and compiling ncurses. After "make install", > lq: there are some instructions about moving the libncurses.so.5* from > lq: /usr/lib to /lib. > lq: > lq: I wonder why it is wrong that these libraries are in /usr/lib? If > lq: I do not do this, then when I compile some other application > lq: ncurses libraries will not be found?
As far as I understand (and is described in chapter 2.4. Mounting the New Partition), it might well be, that /usr is not on the same device (harddisk partition) as the stuff needed to boot the system. If somehow, Linux fails to mount /usr, the rest of the system (all system libraries) are still accessible from the device, that holds the root partition (/). I think, I read something like that in the book, but can't remember where it was. So if you have / and /usr on the same partition, I think this isn't a problem. But for consistency, I'd copy them to /lib. Andreas (other might tear me apart and have other ideas on this) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
