Re: Subdir for headers?

[Uwe R. <Uwe...@ep...>]

On Thursday 21 October 2004 18:54, Gerard Vermeulen wrote:

> Qt breaks the LSB (Linux Standard Base).

Really ? S.u.S.E has a LSB certification and installs in /usr/lib/qt3.

> The LSB policy is to have all libraries in /usr/lib and all headers in
> /usr/include or /usr/include/qwt (this is better because as Patrick says,
> Qwt contains quite a lot of headers).

Maybe you mean the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard FHS ? But I couldn=B4t fin=
d any=20
policy you mentioned.=20

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IMO the installationn depends on the OS:

A: MAC

No idea.

B: Win

On Win systems I would prefere to follow Qt as guideline. Guess this is the=
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most intuitive option we have.

C: Linux

On Linux systems the packagers are responsible to decide where to install Q=
wt.=20
So the installation we have to implement is one for distros that don=B4t of=
fer=20
a Qwt package. But what is the best place for such an installation ?

If we don=B4t find any advice in the standards we should check what the=20
different distros do with packages like qt or kde. S.u.S.E does:

/opt/kde3
/usr/lib/qt3

So candidates are /opt, /usr/lib, /usr/local/. But whatever we use - IMHO a=
ll=20
Qwt files should be completely installed in a single Qwt subdirectory:

qwt/
	include
	lib
	doc
	...

My personal preference is not to use /usr/lib,

Uwe