[Freemint-discuss] Installation path for shared libs

[Thorsten O. <ad...@th...>]

Not that these are currently used much in FreeMinT (i think the recently added 
gemma.slb is the only one), but is there some standard/convention where to 
install shared libraries (the actual code that is loaded by Slbopen(), not any 
helper libraries you might need in your application).

The automatic build process currently does not install them i think (only the 
development parts). And in the Makefile of eg. gemma, when you do a "make 
install", it will be installed to /mint/slb, and cpu-specific subdirectories.

The question is: is that base-directory more or less standard? I've also seen 
pathes like /gemsys/slb, and  in MagiC they are usually in installed in /
gemsys/magic/xtension.

Also the names of the cpu-specific sub-directories are questionable. Currently 
the same names as the multi-lib directories from gcc are used (m68020-60, 
m5475 etc.). Since /mint (or /gemsys) are usually on the boot partition, and 
thus on a FAT filesystem, at least m68020-60 is not the best choice.

And then: should the default libs (for plain 68000) be installed in the base 
directory, or also in a dedicated sub-directory, like the others? That would 
make it easier to switch configurations by just setting SLBPATH accordingly, 
without having to copy around actual files.