From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3922 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Matias A. Fonzo" Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Progress on roadmap to 0.9.13 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:39:14 -0300 Message-ID: <20130817093914.4b0a04dd@rafaela> References: <20130815075912.GA705@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20130817123913.771df1d0@vostro> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376753786 22460 80.91.229.3 (17 Aug 2013 15:36:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:36:26 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3926-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sat Aug 17 17:36:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VAiYI-0002NB-3C for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:36:30 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 24489 invoked by uid 550); 17 Aug 2013 15:36:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 13676 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2013 12:21:58 -0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=EJGEIilC c=1 sm=1 a=ncIV9/qU51OnLGZmmgjMIg==:17 a=ASokBxPbDM8A:10 a=0QzJL1psVzMA:10 a=9Q5qhoxNCncA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=IkK7ewXGAAAA:8 a=kZV8C6pkGWwA:10 a=VSYsFznoz7YSVrTb7ysA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=5bnIr+R+vs56oWgm0tidcA==:117 X-EN-OrigOutIP: 10.1.18.11 X-EN-IMPSID: DoMl1m0050EKrUA01oMlRZ In-Reply-To: <20130817123913.771df1d0@vostro> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs39 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-dragora-linux-gnu) X-EN-UserInfo: 437011c531a180990c73778423a05059:b8667caf9a6d463388b687baf7896592 X-EN-AuthUser: selk@mfonzo.powweb.com Original-Sender: "Matias A. Fonzo" X-EN-OrigIP: 190.151.170.177 X-EN-OrigHost: unknown Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3922 Archived-At: Hello, El Sat, 17 Aug 2013 12:39:13 +0300 Timo Teras escribi=F3: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 03:59:12 -0400 > Rich Felker wrote: >=20 > > One key target for 0.9.13 which I didn't cover above is improving > > "make install" and possibly tweaking the symlink strategy for > > libc.so and ld-musl.so. At several times in the past, I was fairly > > convinced that it makes more sense to reverse the symlink direction > > and have libc.so point to ld-musl.so rather than the other way > > around. However, I keep going back to doubting that there's any > > good reason for it to change. So if there are people who still care > > about this issue, I'd really like to hear you speak up _now_ rather > > than 2 days before the next release, or after the next release. If > > there's no progress on justifying changes, I think the only changes > > I'm going to make in this area are to fix lack-of-atomicity issues > > during installation. >=20 > Sorry for late answer. >=20 > IIRC the advantages were: >=20 > - Easier to install different subarch (even compatible arch versions) > side by side. As ld.so names are unique - libc.so is same for all so > those would need to be renamed anyway. >=20 > - libc.so and libc.a can go to /usr/lib if libc.so is just an > optional symlink. this is desirable as the development stuff are not > nice to keep in /lib. >=20 This does not seem viable if /usr is a symlink / or /usr/lib is a symlink to /lib. /opt can be the place ... Regards, Matias