From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Path for system-wide .eln files Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:13:27 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83o8qocd32.fsf@gnu.org> <838shrdb1c.fsf@gnu.org> <837dxbd93b.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Andrea Corallo Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6995"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions." , Ulrich Mueller , Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 31 21:14:06 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kCpFm-0001if-7t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 21:14:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54246 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kCpFl-0001BJ-0h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48100) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kCpFI-0000lx-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:13:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:55269) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kCpFF-00039O-UA; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:13:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mab (ma.sdf.org [205.166.94.33]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTP id 07VJDRuh019256; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:13:28 GMT In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 30 Aug 2020 17:51:12 -0400") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=akrl@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/08/31 15:13:31 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254455 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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