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On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 12:24 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
> >
> > Op 14 mei 2012, om 15:47 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven:
> >
> >> The pkgconfig files need to be installed in ${libdir} instead of
> >> ${base_libdir}.
> >
> > Thanks for the patch, I was working on something similar :) I talked
> with the kmod and udev people and they asked why we want kmod libs
> in /lib instead of /usr/lib. I didn't have an answer to that, does
> anyone else have a decent one? If not, let's not mess with $prefix and
> remove all the do_install changes.
> 
> OE-Core try to allow the use of /usr in a separated partition so it
> seems it is a requirement for it to work in initrdless systems.

I've heard requests from people that / be bootable with /usr being
mounted later. For something like kmod, there is therefore a case for
putting the library in base_libdir, not libdir. Not doing so sounds like
a bit of a cop-out from the maintainers.

Cheers,

Richard