Re: [Freemint-discuss] Installation path for shared libs

[David G. <dga...@gm...>]

2018-08-05 4:06 GMT+02:00 Thorsten Otto <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.
>

I have them myself in /gemsys/slb, also I have placed ldg share
libraries inside /gemsys/ldg too. But I don't remember why I put them
there and if this is the standard. I thought that was from the times I
had a dual system MiNT/MagiC but from your comment above that MagiC
expects them in gemsys/magic/xtension I'm not sure anymore.
I guess that for MiNT only systems it makes sense to placed them
inside /mint/slb but I don't have a strong opinion about it.

> 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.
>

We should to take care about these things, there are also some network
drivers which doesn't fit with the 8+3 limit for FAT boot partition.