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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:49:11 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANN] apache_1.3.22 package available for setup inclusion
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:44:25AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Stipe Tolj wrote:
> > 
> > > No.  See my other mail.  What I meant was, $libexecdir should be
> > > == $sbindir == $(prefix)/sbin == /usr/sbin.
> > >
> > > DLLs to
> > >
> > > /usr/lib        if run time loaded with e.g. dlopen()
> > > /usr/bin        if inherently linked in.
> > >
> > > Basically I don't want /usr/libexec in the users path.
> > 
> > Ok, so we'll have to have:
> > 
> > /usr/lib/libfoo.dll
> > /usr/lib/mod_bar.dll
> > 
> > for the run time loaded modules, and
> > 
> > /usr/bin/libhttpd.dll
> > 
> > for the inherently linked in core lib.
> > 
> 
> The long stated rule, check this and cygwin-developers archives, is that
> Cygwin dependent dll's must begin with the prefix `cyg'.  Please
> maintain this standard, the reasons have been documented in the
> archives.  Chuck even patched binutils to make it as easy as possible to
> prefix the dll output.

I agree with Earnie, especially if the httpd lib is used to
link with other applications, too.

Corinna

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