[lug] Library locations

[Ben Whaley]

Jeff,

You should probably would refer to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

If your library is architecture independent, it should go in
/usr/share/lib. If the binaries will live in /usr/bin/ or /usr/sbin/,
put the library in /usr/lib. Otherwise, /usr/local/lib is probably the
right place.

- Ben


On Feb 6, 2008 4:32 PM, Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm building a package: my company's commercial product, so it's our code,
> not something off the web.
>
> It includes a shared library, which I eventually need to install on target
> machines.  Off-hand, I'd have guessed it should go into /usr/local/lib, or
> maybe /usr/share/lib.  Still, every rpm or Debian package installed on the
> boxes I have at hand installs libraries right into /usr/lib, which makes me
> suspect I'm probably wrong.
>
> Can someone explain where I should install my library and why?  I seem to be
> thinking about it fuzzily.
>
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