Re: Ruby and FHS

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 08:12:33PM +0900, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 08:00:30PM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:11:27 +0900, Kirill A. Shutemov
> > <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > Ruby has some nonconformity with  Filesystem Hierarchy Standard:
> > > 
> > > * headers placed in /usr/lib/ruby... but must be placed in
> > > /usr/include/ruby (see 4.7 and 4.6 of FHS)
> > > 
> > > * .rb of standart library  placed in /usr/lib/ruby/... but must be
> > > placed in /usr/share/ruby... becouse it's system independent part of ruby
> > > (see 4.7 and 4.11 of FSH)
> > 
> > Is the FHS a Linux thing, or does it cross Unix boundaries? If the
> > former, then I don't really see a reason to follow it. Sorry.
> > 
> Quote:
> "This standard consists of a set of requirements and
> guidelines for file and directory placement under UNIX-like
> operating systems.  The guidelines are intended to support
> interoperability of applications, system administration tools,
> development tools, and scripts as well as greater uniformity
>  of documentation for these systems."

The FHS is in effect a Linuxism.  It is the way different Linux
distributions standardize their file system layout, and is as far as I
know not used as the primary reference for anything but Linux
distributions.

HOWEVER: The guidelines there match fairly well with other systems.  The
intention for share/ (intended for NFS sharing) and lib/ (binary code)
is also in SunOS and *BSD.  The use of /usr instead of /usr/local is a
Linuxism.

The FHS is at
	http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

The FreeBSD guidelines (which I believe match closely with the NetBSD
and OpenBSD guidelines) is at
	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier

The SunOS and Solaris practice is at
	<various searches all over the net and a personal evaluation>

Eivind.