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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
	Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
Subject: Path for system-wide .eln files (was: Native compilation: the bird-eye view)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 12:18:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzh6ca134_-_@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xjftuwt493h.fsf@sdf.org> (Andrea Corallo via's message of "Sun,  23 Aug 2020 16:31:46 +0000")

Heading over from https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/16962 to here,
as suggested by Andrea:

System-wide .eln files are currently installed in:
/usr/libexec/emacs/28.0.50/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/eln-cache/

(I am using /usr here and in the following for better readability,
replace by ${exec_prefix} as appropriate.)

I see two issues with this:

- According to [1] the directory contains ".eln files compiled during
  the build process." Therefore it is not a cache but a normal install
  directory, and "eln-cache" is a misleading name.
  (Or, from a wider perspective, a system-wide cache can never be in
  /usr but should be in /var/cache. And it wouldn't be populated at
  install time but at run time.)

- The FHS [2] says that /usr/libexec is intended for "binaries run
  by other programs". Do .eln files qualify as executable binaries?
  IIUC they are loaded by dlopen, so they're pretty much libraries or
  plugins which should go under /usr/lib{,64} instead.

[1] https://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html#org01229a9
[2] https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s07.html



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-30 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-16 11:51 Native compilation: the bird-eye view Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 12:58 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-16 15:57   ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-16 16:26   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 17:03     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-16 17:35       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 17:44         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-16 17:50           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 18:26             ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-16 18:32               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-16 18:41                 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-18 14:27                   ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-19  5:08                     ` ASSI
2020-05-19 16:25                     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-19 16:37                       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-19 19:16                         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-05-29 17:25                       ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-02 15:16                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-03 14:23                         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-06-03 14:38                           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-10  9:23                             ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-10 12:20                               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-10 21:34                                 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-15 10:51                                   ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-15 15:00                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-19 15:01                                     ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-20  0:53                                       ` tumashu
2020-08-20  8:11                                         ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-23 12:19                                       ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-23 15:37                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-23 16:31                                           ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-23 18:20                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-24  8:03                                               ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-24 13:31                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-24 14:09                                                   ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-30 10:18                                             ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2020-08-30 20:50                                               ` Path for system-wide .eln files Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-30 21:51                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-31 19:13                                                   ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-08-31 21:16                                                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-09-01  4:28                                                       ` Yuri Khan
2020-09-01  7:16                                                         ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-09-01  8:46                                                           ` tomas
2020-09-04 17:55                                                           ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-04 18:25                                                             ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-09-04 19:47                                                               ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-04 20:01                                                                 ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-09-04 21:42                                                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-04 22:59                                                                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-09-05  2:58                                                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-05  7:10                                                                         ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-09-06  6:24                                                                           ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-05  7:48                                                                     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-05-16 19:11               ` Native compilation: the bird-eye view Yuan Fu
2020-05-17  4:04                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-05-17 11:18                 ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-16 22:09               ` John Wiegley
2020-05-17  4:11     ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-05-17  7:43       ` Andrea Corallo

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