Bug 116589 - gnome-applets has incorrect libexecdir
Summary: gnome-applets has incorrect libexecdir
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: GNOME (show other bugs)
Version: RC 2
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Gary Ekker
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Reported: 2005-09-12 18:46 UTC by JP Rosevear
Modified: 2005-10-04 22:37 UTC (History)
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Description JP Rosevear 2005-09-12 18:46:55 UTC 
gnome-applets uncondtionally uses  --libexecdir=%{prefix}/lib/gnome-applets it
should be  --libexecdir=%{prefix}/%_lib/gnome-applets

Not critical since everything works.
Comment 1 Gary Ekker 2005-09-15 20:07:33 UTC 
Fixed in stable and plus
Comment 2 Stanislav Brabec 2005-10-03 14:30:51 UTC 
Reopening.
Comment 3 Stanislav Brabec 2005-10-03 14:39:26 UTC 
Correct libexecdir is %{prefix}/lib/{package_name}. Reverting.

Libexecdir is intended for binary helpers. Binary files (bindir, libexecdir) are
not duplicated on bi-arch.

If you change libexecdir to %{prefix}/%{_lib}/{package_name}, IA32 libraries on
x86_64 will not find these helpers and fail. For example see bug 62050.

See also:
http://fourier.suse.de/mlarch/SuSE/packagers/2004/packagers.2004.10/msg00005.html
Comment 4 Ruediger Oertel 2005-10-04 22:37:00 UTC 
correct for the case of binaries. I just wonder how many packages 
use libexecdir for libraries and plugins where the story is completely 
different ...