Re: Locating shared libraries

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:05:11AM -0500, Rich Neswold wrote:

On 6/13/07, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

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Did I understand that correctly that you don't want to see binaries with rpath's pointing to install directories such as /usr/lib/gcc-6.6? So, this forces us to use a wrapper in all cases.

Please think seriously about mangling the names of Haskell libraries to include version information and dropping them in $PREFIX/lib with every other language's libraries. Haskell is not special, and users expect libraries to be in /usr/lib. No wrapper needed, no RPATH needed, as far as I can see no fanciness at all.

Actually, Haskell libraries ought to be placed in /usr/local/lib (or /usr/pkg/lib for systems that use the Package System: http://www.pkgsrc.org). Haskell libraries shouldn't mingle with the base OS libraries. But it shouldn't be separate from the other third-party libraries, either.

No, haskell libraries ought to be placed in /usr/lib when they are being installed by the OS. I don't want my GHC 6.8 debian install to pollute /usr/local. (/usr/local is fine for local builds of course; that's why I used $PREFIX). Stefan