[PD-dev] Help search; standard external installation paths

[guenter geiger]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Larry Troxler wrote:
> > not many/all externals (like my own) do this though if they have a
> > configure script or install target at all so you have to edit the
> > makefile. could def. be improved.
>

One of the goals of the CVS was to have a common structure w/ makefiles
and common places. There are other more subtile problems in several
of the makefiles of the externals, like not using -fPIC etc, problems
of compilation on some architectures, libraries etc.

One attempt to solve this was the build/<arch> structure that is in CVS,
but I am not really happy with that, and it only works partly. I can't
think of a better solution, well not unless the developers start to
work closer together, which would mean more communication overhead.

The places the externals  get installed to currently (/usr/lib and
/usr/local/lib) are the official places of the FHS, the Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard (see http://www.pathname.com/fhs/), which among
other things says that locally compiled packages should go into
/usr/local, whereas packages that come with the distribution go
into the /usr tree.

I suggest that we put all the externals and libraries in ../lib/pd/extra.
Of course we have to resolve the name conflicts then, which would be a
good idea in general.

After all we have to put more administrative work into the CVS, something
I have been trying to do, but I am not very good at it, it's just too
boring ... (well, thats probably why only a few of the developers show
interest for these problems, some are downright fighting each attempt
to come up with a common structure .. well, what can we do ? )

Guenter


> Hmm, I had thought that this was more than just a choice between /usr/* and
> /usr/local/*.
>
> Maybe everything's getting sorted out lately, and I just have some really old
> stuff lying around.  Certainly I wouldn't complain about /usr/* vs.
> /usr/local/* if it were certain what the structure was underneath.
>
> Looking at my .pdrc below, I guess that a lot of makefiles havent't really
> included "install" targets, or else I didn't bother to use them.  Truth to be
> told, I should prune this thing, and maybe things are getting better and some
> of these paths are now empty.
>
> But still, remaning suspects are the vasp and iemlib* libraries.
>
> Larry
> ---
>
> -path cur
> -path pd
> -path pd/util
> -path pd/test
> -path pd/ins
> -path pd/help
> -path /usr/lib/pd/externs
> -path /usr/local/lib/pd/externs
> -path /usr/lib/pd/extra
> -path /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/vasp/pd
> -path k_quile
> -lib xeq/xeq
> -lib /usr/lib/pd/extra/iemlib1
> -lib /usr/lib/pd/extra/iemlib2
> -lib vasp/vasp
>
>
>
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