Re: [Evolution-hackers] installing evolution-data-server fails on a FHS compliant system

[Christian Krause <krause chr gmail com>]

Hi Rodney,

On 5/24/05, Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com> wrote:
> >From the FHS:
> 
> Applications may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib. If an
> application uses a subdirectory, all architecture-dependent data
> exclusively used by the application must be placed within that
> subdirectory.
> 
> This means that to be FHS-compliant, you need to specify the
> evolution-$BASE_VERSION subfolder to $libdir for the --libexecdir
> argument to configure. This is what we do in SUSE for
> evolution-data-server.

Yes, you are correct. The best way to get eds FHS-compliant installed
is to set the libexecdir to /usr/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2.

But I do still vote to do some tweaks inside e-d-s to let it compile
and install correctly even on a FHS-compliant system (where libexecdir
is the same as libdir) without additional configure options. Here are
my arguments:

- nearly all distributions are FHS compliant right now
- many distributions have to do some extra stuff (e.g. setting
libexecdir, apply patches, ...) to let eds install correctly
- some people who compiling e-d-s from scratch and have a
FHS-compliant system will suffer from this bug (searching the problem
why e-d-s is not running, thinking over a solution, ...)

Because of this it would be really nice if eds could be compiled
without any changes or additional options.


Best regards,
Christian