Re: about the packages: directory names and places

Tuesday, 13 October 1998


        "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes:

...
 Neither of these is that strong a reason against putting the
 architecture independent stuff in .../share by default, and putting it
 there certainly will make Linux distribution maintainers happy.  I
 don't know if GNU has adopted .../share as a standard, but I know that
 several GNU packages I have built locally use it (the Linux versions
 obviously aren't a fair test since they're explicitly made to be
 FSSTND compliant). 
	Using ${prefix}/share for architecture-independant stuff belongs to
the GNU Coding Standards. Stallmacs uses it to put its lisp files. Here's an
extract of our share directory here. I think it's rather informative:

| ls /usr/local/share
| Muttrc       aclocal   bison.hairy   ghostscript  libtool     pixmaps  yudit
| WINGs        autoconf  bison.simple  gimp         locale      psutils
| WindowMaker  automake  dejagnu       id-lang.map  mime.types  snmp
| a2ps         awk       emacs         less.hlp     mysql       tabset

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