/usr/local news

Hi

I am hereby declaring that my attempts to convert a few commonly used
open source libraries to support /usr/local have failed .

The pkg-config project took months to reply to my mail and patch. They
apparently didn't even understand what I was saying about /usr/local,
and months later eventually committed another patch based on mine,
which simply changes the way the paths are configured and still
doesn't support /usr/local. I mailed them and told them that's not the
point of my patch and tried to explain, but nobody responded to that
mail.

In brighter news, in Ubuntu 8.04, libc does support /usr/local. Looks
like /usr/local is supported by libc by default now,
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf contains these 2 lines:
# libc default configuration
/usr/local/lib

Seeing as libc was the only major library in Ubuntu that didn't
support /usr/local, it looks like we can now whitelist Ubuntu 8.04 as
a distribution on which installing to /usr/local does work properly.

But it simply isn't going to work this way, with a tiny group of us
caring about cross-distribution compatibility and fd.o standards, and
the vast majority not knowing or caring, and even opposing us. I'm
contributing to Wine and Java - Linux as a platform for native
applications is largely dead to me at the moment.

Bye
Damjan

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