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Hi,
I was wondering about your opinion as packagers of MySQL. At the moment,
the sql/Makefile installs mysqld into $prefix/libexec by default.
But after some research it seems like the FreeBSD people are the only ones
who actually put it into libexec - on most Linux distributions (except for
Red Hat) mysqld seems to end up in /usr/sbin instead. But even on Red Hat,
/usr/libexec is not very much populated - most other daemons reside in
/usr/sbin as well.
The FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) does not mention "libexec" at all,
but they seem to discuss its purpose from time to time. FHS defines
/usr/sbin as follows:
"This directory contains any non-essential binaries used exclusively by
the system administrator. System administration programs that are required
for system repair, system recovery, mounting /usr, or other essential
functions must be placed in /sbin instead."
The question here is - is mysqld considered to be used exclusively by the
sysadmin?
The GNU "make" info page has the following definitions:
`sbindir'
The directory for installing executable programs that can be run
from the shell, but are only generally useful to system
administrators. This should normally be `/usr/local/sbin', but
write it as `$(exec_prefix)/sbin'. (If you are using Autoconf,
write it as `@sbindir@'.)
`libexecdir'
The directory for installing executable programs to be run by other
programs rather than by users. This directory should normally be
`/usr/local/libexec', but write it as `$(exec_prefix)/libexec'.
(If you are using Autoconf, write it as `@libexecdir@'.)
Following the make info page, $libexecdir seems to be correct, as mysqld
is rarely called directly. But the same seems to be true for many daemons
located in $sbindir
So the question is, if we should change that for MySQL 4.1? The patch is
rather simple, but I'm not so sure about the consequences for you
packagers.
===== sql/Makefile.am 1.74 vs edited =====
- --- 1.74/sql/Makefile.am Fri Jun 20 15:19:47 2003
+++ edited/sql/Makefile.am Fri Jun 27 15:12:30 2003
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
-I$(srcdir) -I../include -I. $(openssl_includes)
WRAPLIBS= @WRAPLIBS@
SUBDIRS = share
- -libexec_PROGRAMS = mysqld
+sbin_PROGRAMS = mysqld
noinst_PROGRAMS = gen_lex_hash
gen_lex_hash_LDFLAGS = @NOINST_LDFLAGS@
LDADD = @isam_libs@ \
Comments, suggestions? I need to get this change post Monty afterwards,
but I would like to get your input on that as well.
Bye,
LenZ
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Lenz Grimmer <lenz@stripped>
Senior Production Engineer
MySQL GmbH, http://www.mysql.de/
Hamburg, Germany
For technical support contracts, visit https://order.mysql.com/?ref=mlgr
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