Place to install library of shell functions

[Jerry McAllister]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:23:47PM +0200, Michael Grünewald wrote:

> Dear FreeBSD users,
> 
> 
> today I come to you with what seems to be somehow pedantic question:  
> where is the best place to install libraries of shell functions.
> 
> I read hier(4) carefully and it seems the correct place for this would 
> be somewhere under `/usr/local/share':
> 
>                 share/    architecture-independent files

I would go with /usr/local/lib.

////jerry


> 
> On the base systems, many macros (make templates and groff macros) are 
> actually installed under /usr/share.  However, the only library of shell 
> functions I am aware of is `/etc/rc.subr', that landed on this funny 
> location, probably to be pretty sure that this library is on the same 
> filesystem as the scripts under /etc/rc.d.
> 
> Several of the ports install shell scripts under `/usr/local/lib' that 
> hier(4) devotes to  ``shared and archive ar(1)-type libraries''.  These 
> shell scripts are:
> 
> > find /usr/local/lib -name '*.sh'
> /usr/local/lib/tk8.5/tkConfig.sh
> /usr/local/lib/seamonkey/run-mozilla.sh
> /usr/local/lib/libxul/run-mozilla.sh
> /usr/local/lib/rpm/convertrpmrc.sh
> /usr/local/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh
> /usr/local/lib/rpm/getpo.sh
> /usr/local/lib/rpm/u_pkg.sh
> /usr/local/lib/rpm/vpkg-provides.sh
> /usr/local/lib/rpm/vpkg-provides2.sh
> /usr/local/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh
> /usr/local/lib/tcl8.5/tclConfig.sh
> /usr/local/lib/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh
> /usr/local/lib/llvm-gcc-2.8/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd8.2/4.2.1/install-tools/fixinc.sh
> 
> Two files (the `/usr/local/lib/tcl8.5/tclConfig.sh' one and the 
> `s/tcl/tk/g' one) are actually shell script libraries (defining a bunch 
> of variables), and all the others are ancillary scripts, that would 
> maybe better fit in `/usr/local/libexec'.
> 
> So, practical experience does not really second my a priori that these 
> files sould go under the `share' hierarchy and I would like to have your 
> opinion on this question.
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> Michael
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