[PATCH] Fix PACKAGE_SCRIPT_DIR location in Makefile.am

Sjoerd Simons sjoerd at luon.net
Mon Aug 21 00:54:07 PDT 2006


On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:10:03AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 8/20/06, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at spring.luon.net> wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:00:29AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> >> This corrects the location of the hal scripts directory passed by the
> >> preprocessor in the hald-runner and tools directories.
> >
> >Why ? The rationale is that the scripts are architecture independant, so
> >according to the FHS belong in /usr/share.  Any reason to change that ? :)
> 
> That's a separate issue, but right now they're installed in $(libdir).

Ah right, it has indeed already been changed[0]. The FHS is indeed a little bit
unclear in this area, but the common interpretation is to place application
specific arch-independant sripts in /usr/share. But as the change already has
been done, it's kinda useless to switch back again.

> This patch just makes it consistent across the package for passing
> this location through the preprocessor. See the value for scriptdir in
> tools/Makefile.am.
> 
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=blob_plain;f=tools/Makefile.am

Your right, just ignore my comments about this patch :)

  Sjoerd
0: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5655
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