From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48839) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUGUJ-0007TR-Q6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:41:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUGUD-0006vD-Rk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:41:11 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62195) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUGUD-0006tJ-BH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:41:05 -0400 Message-ID: <5256AE5D.4020804@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:40:45 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1381404376-28156-1-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com> <1381404376-28156-6-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com> <52569A8F.8080501@redhat.com> <20131010123426.GA3159@T430s.nay.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20131010123426.GA3159@T430s.nay.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 5/8] module: implement module loading List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: famz@redhat.com Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, peter.maydell@linaro.org, alex@alex.org.uk, mjt@tls.msk.ru, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, vilanova@ac.upc.edu, stefanha@redhat.com, xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com, rth@twiddle.net Il 10/10/2013 14:34, Fam Zheng ha scritto: > Hmm, basically an analogue to bindir and libdir. > > I'm not sure why wasn't that libdir/bindir always be ${prefix}/lib and > ${prefix}/bin as well. So why are they needed? > > AFAICT it is not a problem to drop it, if you insist. libdir can be ${prefix}/lib64, bindir could also be ${prefix}/libexec for example. Also, libdir and bindir are two of the standard arguments to configure (rooting back to the GNU coding standards). Paolo