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From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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Subject: Re: /usr/dos for doscmd
In-Reply-To: <19970810084631.HZ57983@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Aug 10, 97 08:46:31 am"
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:37:49 +0200 (CEST)
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According to J Wunsch:
> As Faried Nawaz wrote:
> 
> >   Hmmm...  You are right...  What is a good "semi-standard" place to
> >   put such things.  I don't necessarily think that we should create
> >   another directory, or should we?
> 
> > What does it try to install?  How about somewhere in /usr/libdata?  
> 
> I also thought about /usr/libdata (or /usr/libexec -- it seems to be
> an executable file, although not a Unix executable).
> 
> The Makefile would currently break `make release', btw., since it
> relies on X11 being installed.  This should probably be made
> automatically dependant on the actual configuration.  Negative side
> effect: the doscmd that ships with releases won't be able to do X11.

It might be nice to have a directory where doscmd can play around, and
where you can also place stuff related to it (like maybe default config file?).
Wouldn't /compat/dos work?  Or /usr/local/lib/dos or something?

About relying on X11 being installed... Can't that be made checked at runtime?
By using dlopen() instead of normal dependency, or so?

  /Mikael