[Distutils] [Python Language Summit] Distutils / Packaging survey

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 02:15:25PM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
> The arch independent/dependent is much clearer IMHO, and is the
> vocabulary used by the FHS, AFAIK. It is certainly the one used by the
> configure script help:
> 
>   --libdir=DIR           object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
>   --datarootdir=DIR      read-only arch.-independent data root
> [PREFIX/share]
>   --datadir=DIR          read-only architecture-independent data
> [DATAROOTDIR]

The FHS, just like autoconf, does say that datadir must be
arch-independent.  But AFAIK they never say that libdir is not allowed
to be architecture independent.

But I'm suspecting this is very much off-topic by now.


Regards
Floris

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