Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 21:19:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: gclarkii@freefall.cdrom.com (Gary Clark II) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Perl include files *.ph Message-ID: <199507170419.VAA00339@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199507170214.TAA20353@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Gary Clark II" at Jul 16, 95 07:14:55 pm
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> > Hi, > > Ok, it's now time for my harp on the present location of the perl > SYSTEM / PLATFORM dependent include files. Right now they are located > in /usr/share which I thought was for independent files. Am I wrong > in thinking this?? If not, again I say we need to move them. > They are just processed versions of our *.h files from /usr/include > and therefore depend on the system/platform. Our files will not > work for a SUN and vice/versa. Don't ask where, but not there. They won't work for your sun running Sun/Os, but they should work for your sun running FreeBSD :-). /usr/share is shareable accross machines (architectures) not accross OS's. Actually the issue of /usr/include vs /usr/share/include has come up (and pretty much died since it is a lot of digging to figure out) in the file system standards stuff going on between FreeBSD/BSDI/Linux. A very large part of /usr/include (and thus by default) /usr/share/perl is infact machine/architecture independent and most likely belongs in /usr/share. Infact about the only machine dependant part of BSD's /usr/include is /usr/include/machine, this one area when relocated could be done as a symbolic link back into the machine dependent /usr some place, with /usr/include being a symbolic link to /usr/share/include for the transitition period. This is all a dicey thing right now and I would just as soon leave this alone until it can be done once and done right. > > Gary > > Ideas: /usr/lib/perl | /usr/include/perl | /usr/perl /usr/lib/perl is wrong as these are not ``archive libraries'' /usr/include/perl is wrong as these are not ``standard C include files'' /usr/perl is wrong as these are 95% machine independent files, perhaps /usr/perl for the MD parts of this, but not all of it. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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