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From: Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions."
	<emacs-devel@gnu.org>,  Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: Path for system-wide .eln files
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:13:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xjfr1rmwrvs.fsf@sdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpn77yfe2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 30 Aug 2020 17:51:12 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> As for point 1 if this folder does not classify as cache because read
>> only, should be easy to go for something more appropriate.  Something as
>> simple as "sys-eln" would work? (I'm not good with names sorry)
>
> No need for `sys` in that name, AFAICT: the rest of the name makes it
> clear that it belongs to the Emacs installation or to the system but not
> to the user.

Right, so just "eln"? "native-lisp"?  We gotta choose a name here :)

>> For point 2: eln are opened with dlopen so they are technically shared
>> libraries.  They need to be loaded with some special treatment and
>> cannot be used as simple shareds by C programs tho.
>>
>> To me this fits decently in the definition for /usr/libexec from your
>> link:
>
> AFAICT, `/usr/libexec` contains executables, not shared libraries.
> They're just executables that are not supposed to be in $PATH.
> So I think `/usr/lib` is more appropriate.

AFAIU `/usr/libexec` would be for binaries in general, infact we store
there the pdumper img.  Okay for `/usr/lib`.

Thanks

  Andrea



  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-31 19:13 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                                             ` Path for system-wide .eln files (was: Native compilation: the bird-eye view) Ulrich Mueller
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. [this message]
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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