Bug 685474

Summary:	net-im/telegram-desktop-bin installs /usr/lib/telegram-desktop-bin/Telegram outside LIBDIR
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Egger <egger.m>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Henning Schild <henning>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	mgorny, np-hardass, proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael Egger 2019-05-09 17:27:46 UTC

I upgraded to the 17.1 dev profile and noticed net-im/telegram-desktop-bin-1.6.7 installs to /usr/lib instead of the preferred /usr/lib64. Telegram still works fine though.

$ file /usr/lib/telegram-desktop-bin/Telegram 
/usr/lib/telegram-desktop-bin/Telegram: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=52f7d3235ff06b783db1432527790a15aad9fb9b, stripped

$ emerge --info net-im/telegram-desktop-bin
net-im/telegram-desktop-bin-1.6.7::gentoo was built with the following:
USE="" ABI_X86="(64)"

Comment 1 Henning Schild 2019-05-10 19:13:36 UTC

Well the file is actually a stand-alone binary, which only takes a few shared libraries. So from a functional point of view it does not matter much where you place it.
On my 17.0 profile /usr/lib is a symlink to /usr/lib64 so the file actually resides in /usr/lib64/. I assume that on i386 i would see a symlink to /usr/lib32 or there would not be another variant. So the ebuild works without making a difference.
I do not know whether 17.1 would work differently. If so the ebuild could probably switch the destination depending on the arch.

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2019-05-10 19:32:26 UTC

/usr/lib64 is not 'preferred'.  /usr/lib is the correct place for stand-alone software packages.

Comment 3 Henning Schild 2019-05-10 21:14:09 UTC

Just to clarify the WONTFIX, things did not change with profile 17.1? So the ebuild is fine and /usr/lib will always take care of arch difference (i.e with symlinks) as i expected for 17.0?

Comment 4 Michał Górny archtester

2019-05-10 21:16:57 UTC

There's no arch difference since you will be only installing one version of it.