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> Op 2 dec. 2014, om 16:53 heeft Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com> het =
volgende geschreven:
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> First, this is VERY MUCH A RFC!
>=20
> There's numerous problems with setting ${libexecdir} to =
${libdir}/${BPN}, but
> the a easy argument in my opinion is that nobody else does this.
>=20
> The Debian world sets libexecdir to ${exec_prefix}/lib, and the Red =
Hat world
> uses ${exec_prefix}/libexec.  The FHS says either are fine.  Nobody =
puts the
> package name into the definition of libexecdir, as automake provides
> pkglibexecdir ($libexec/$package) for package-specific binaries.
>=20
> This branch changes bitbake.conf to use ${exec_prefix}/libexec and a =
few patches
> to fix (or hack around) any problems this has revealed so far.
>=20
> Comments and testing (especially with other layers, and multilib =
configurations)
> much appreciated.

In the past I've patched things like gdm to look in ${libdir}/${BPN} for =
helper binaries (which are from a different recipe), so not only recipes =
need to be inspected, but patches as well.

regards,

Koen=