Excerpts from Nathan Wayde's message of 2010-07-22 18:25:04 +0200:
On 22/07/10 16:52, Philipp wrote:
Hi, I try to package the IUP toolkit. The build system is fairly weird, but in cooperation with the upstream project manager I think I know the steps necessary to package it. It would need a custom environment variable LUA_CPATH set to something matching the installed lib. Afaik this would be something the user would need to do manually, which I'd like to avoid.
The IUP project manager suggested that a symlink might do the trick instead: iuplua.so -> libiuplua51.so
Is this something sensible to do? yes and if you ever need to set environment variables you can add a custom script in /etc/profile.d, no user intervention is required.
Ah, and it would be sourced automatically? Could it be a one-liner like: export LUA_CPATH=whatever Or does it need more? What about the symlink solution? Are both possible, and if so, which one is preferable? Thanks a lot. -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan