[OE-core] [RFC] Move libexecdir to $prefix/libexec

[Burton, Ross]

Forgot to cross-post oe-devel...

On 23 June 2015 at 15:30, Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Yes, I'm bringing this up again. :)
>
> Our default of libexecdir=$libdir/$BPN is contrary to both the FHS[1] and
> GNU
> Coding Standards[2], mainly because the key point is that libexecdir
> should be
> global and not change per-recipe.  The new FHS allows /usr/libexec so this
> series changes the default to that, and fixes up the recipes which need
> fixing.
>
> Several of the recipe fixes are unrelated to the change and will be
> submitted to
> master shortly, but others (eg sudo) are intimately tied to the change.
>
> I've done basic multilib-enabled builds but more testing welcome.  I'd say
> that
> in general multilib problems this exposes are in fact problems with the
> recipe:
> for example GConf should install the binaries once and libraries in each
> libdir.
>
> Ross
>
> [1] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s07.html
> [2] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html
>
>
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