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Re: ldconfig bug (cvs head)
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Andrew Walrond <andrew at walrond dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:28:05 -0800
- Subject: Re: ldconfig bug (cvs head)
> Roland McGrath wrote:
> > You probably meant --exec-prefix= unless you want // at the start.
> >
>
> Yes, although the other works ok.
>
> Are there any less obvious (than the ldconfig thing) reasons why
> --exec-prefix=/ is a bad idea? (Putting aside convention fot a moment)
Well, it's a bad idea if //lib and so forth were not the names you wanted
to consider canonical, and in practice noone ever wants to consider such
names the "right" ones but really intends /lib and so forth. But I won't
presume to know what you really intend. prefix and exec-prefix are "the
string prepended to /lib", so say what you mean and you get what you ask for.