From: "Alexey I. Froloff" <sir_raorn@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T14:50:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and FHS

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* Eivind Eklund <eivind@> [040916 09:17]:
> 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.
Just try to think about it as we have two types of runtime
"data" (modules).  Platform independent (*.rb) that should go in
$prefix/share/ruby/ and can be shared on many platforms (via NFS f.e.)
and platform dependent (*.so, *.dll, *.whatever) that should go
in $prefix/lib/ruby/ and can not be shared.

In addition, we have system libraries (libruby.so.*) that should
be installed in $prefix/lib/ and development headers that
indended to be installed in $prefix/include/.

> The use of /usr instead of /usr/local is a Linuxism.
/usr and /usr/local should be called $prefix.  Linux just uses
/usr for software that comes packaged for this distribution by
it's vendor, like *BSD's basesystem (not counting ports).

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Regards,
Sir Raorn.

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