[kde-solaris] [kde-discuss] KBE 1.0 - Build enviroment for KDE

[Lukas Oboril]

On Dec 11, 2007 5:58 PM, Stefan Teleman <stefan.teleman at sun.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>
> > Because you haven't yet said that the libraries would be named any
> > differently. Thus, a binary application distributed that was linked
> > against a version of say, Qt, that was compiled with the normal C++
> > runtime instead of stdcxx would likely have issues.
>
> What kind of "issues" ?
>
> The run-time loader /usr/lib/ld.so.1 binds to $SONAME, not to the
> actual filename of the shared library.
>
> Whomever wants to write an application and link against stdcxx or QT
> or libCstd.so.1 in Solaris better know the difference between
> different C++ Libraries, how they work, and what they need to do to
> get it right.
>
> > In addition, you seem to be throwing cold water on any administrators
> > who like to administer diskless systems. /usr is *not* used for 3rd
> > party software for a reason.
>
> Sysadmins can figure it out, that's what they get paid to do. If they
> don't want KDE in /usr, they can pkgrm  it. They don't even have to
> install it in the first place, since it's unlikely that KDE will be
> available in all the Solaris metaclusters. Probably only in developer
> and full.
>
> >>> In the end, as much as I dislike it. I can live with kde in /usr and
> >>> maybe even our C deps. Though I would still like /usr/local better
> >>> since that's what many GNU/Linux apps do today even!
> >> No, that won't work either.
>
> /usr/local: Over My Dead Body.
>

+1 :)

> That aside, /usr/local is used by Sunfreeware and i am not about to
> start a directory war with Steve Christensen, who is a very
> knowledgeable, gracious, polite, friendly and helpful guy.
>
> > The default locations argument also only applies to software that Sun
> > is distirbuting, not 3rd party software.
>
> /usr/apache or /usr/apache2 or /usr/perl5 or /usr/php5 or /usr/mysql5.
> In Solaris.
>
> Not /opt/apache, /opt/apache2, /opt/perl5, /opt/php5 or /opt/mysql5.
>
> --Stefan


Yes. As I understand in /usr live software provided by Sun and 3rd
party software which is bundled by Sun. /opt is good place for my own
builds, commercial software or software installed myself, by other
vendor and so on ...




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