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by **Philip Bro** » Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:21:13

Can someone explain to me why there is
/usr/openwin/lib/locale, AND /usr/openwin/share/locale?

They seem to have different contents, but it is not clear to me what the
differentiator is.

Nor is it clear to some other people inside Sun, it seems.
To take a "similar, yet different" comparison,
/opt/sfw/share/locale is a link to /opt/sfw/lib/locale

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by **Andrew Gabri** » Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:43:11

Quote:
> Can someone explain to me why there is
> /usr/openwin/lib/locale, AND /usr/openwin/share/locale?

> They seem to have different contents, but it is not clear to me what the
> differentiator is.

> Nor is it clear to some other people inside Sun, it seems.
> To take a "similar, yet different" comparison,
> /opt/sfw/share/locale is a link to /opt/sfw/lib/locale

Well, I won't claim for one minute that I know the answer
(or that I ever even looked before;-), but generally, the
"share" directories contain architecture-neutral files
which can be shared between all systems (sparc and x86).
/usr/openwin/lib/locale contains some libraries, and
those clearly can't.

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lib/locale vs share/locale

lib/locale vs share/locale

lib/locale vs share/locale