[oi-dev] Location for numerical libraries: /usr/lib or /usr/lib/<name> ?

[Aurélien Larcher]

  Thank you !

Le 04/12/13 05:33, Alexander Pyhalov a écrit :
> Hello.
>
> Aurélien Larcher писал 04.12.2013 03:11:
>> Hi,
>> I have packaged a bunch of numerical libraries like arpack-ng, hypre,
>> suitesparse, blacs for oi-userland and I would like to know if they 
>> should
>> be installed in /usr/lib or if they should live in /usr/lib/<name> ?
>>
>> For BLAS and LAPACK it makes sense to be able to select different
>> implementations so it is somewhat clear but what is the 
>> recommended/general
>> rule ?
>
> General rule is to ship libraries in /usr/lib or /usr/lib/amd64 so 
> that "-llib" will just work without any perculiarities.
> However, when having several versions of library is useful (e.g., 
> different versions or implementations - like mariadb vs percona server)
> we can ship it in separate directories - like /usr/mariadb/5.5/lib and 
> /usr/mariadb/5.5/lib/amd64.
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