Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 11:04:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Michael =?utf-8?Q?Gr=C3=BCnewald?= <michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Place to install library of shell functions Message-ID: <20110405160424.GB68973@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <4D9B3403.2070704@yahoo.fr> References: <4D9B3403.2070704@yahoo.fr>
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In the last episode (Apr 05), Michael Grünewald said: > today I come to you with what seems to be somehow pedantic question: where > is the best place to install libraries of shell functions. > > I read hier(4) carefully and it seems the correct place for this would > be somewhere under `/usr/local/share': > > share/ architecture-independent files > > On the base systems, many macros (make templates and groff macros) are > actually installed under /usr/share. However, the only library of shell > functions I am aware of is `/etc/rc.subr', that landed on this funny > location, probably to be pretty sure that this library is on the same > filesystem as the scripts under /etc/rc.d. > > Several of the ports install shell scripts under `/usr/local/lib' that > hier(4) devotes to ``shared and archive ar(1)-type libraries''. These > shell scripts are: The zsh port installs all its helper scripts and functions into /usr/local/share/zsh , and the portupgrade and portmaster ports insert their zsh autocompletion functions into /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions. Seems to work great. Ports that install scripts into /usr/local/lib probably either don't have separate script and lib install paths in their makefile (tcl probably), or their scripts aren't meant to be called directly (firefox). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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