From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 5 15:41:51 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FBFE1065676 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:41:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr) Received: from cc-smtpout2.netcologne.de (cc-smtpout2.netcologne.de [89.1.8.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3517E8FC17 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cc-smtpin3.netcologne.de (cc-smtpin3.netcologne.de [89.1.8.203]) by cc-smtpout2.netcologne.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB25812867 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 17:23:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from llea.celt.neu (xdsl-89-0-81-160.netcologne.de [89.0.81.160]) by cc-smtpin3.netcologne.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D0EFD11EA8 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2011 17:23:47 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4D9B3403.2070704@yahoo.fr> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:23:47 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Michael_Gr=FCnewald?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110328 SeaMonkey/2.0.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Place to install library of shell functions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:41:51 -0000 Dear FreeBSD users, 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: > find /usr/local/lib -name '*.sh' /usr/local/lib/tk8.5/tkConfig.sh /usr/local/lib/seamonkey/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/lib/libxul/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/lib/rpm/convertrpmrc.sh /usr/local/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh /usr/local/lib/rpm/getpo.sh /usr/local/lib/rpm/u_pkg.sh /usr/local/lib/rpm/vpkg-provides.sh /usr/local/lib/rpm/vpkg-provides2.sh /usr/local/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/lib/tcl8.5/tclConfig.sh /usr/local/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/lib/llvm-gcc-2.8/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd8.2/4.2.1/install-tools/fixinc.sh Two files (the `/usr/local/lib/tcl8.5/tclConfig.sh' one and the `s/tcl/tk/g' one) are actually shell script libraries (defining a bunch of variables), and all the others are ancillary scripts, that would maybe better fit in `/usr/local/libexec'. So, practical experience does not really second my a priori that these files sould go under the `share' hierarchy and I would like to have your opinion on this question. -- Best Regards, Michael