[Fedora-packaging] The role of %{_libexecdir} for using environment-modules

Jens Petersen petersen at redhat.com
Thu Oct 9 01:41:19 UTC 2008


> As Ralf said, when you place binaries into %{_libdir} you have to deal
> with different paths on different systems.
> 
> On x86:
>   /usr/lib/gromacs-2/bin/wheel
> 
> On x86_64:
>   /usr/lib64/gromacs-2/bin/wheel

I don't see any problem with using %{_libdir} for this: it should be straight forward to script into the environment modules and it would even allow multilib if for some obscure user that were desirable.

Jens




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