zlib instructions - 'rm /lib/libz.so'?

[Michael Tsang]

On Tuesday 08 September 2009 11:13:06 Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
> hi, I'm just wondering, what's the purpose of moving the symlink in
> '/lib/libz.so', and creating a '/usr/lib/libz.so' instead? FHS compliance?
> LSB compliance? just because '/usr/lib' is first in the search path before
> '/lib'?
> 
> -jf
> 
> --
> In the meantime, here is your PSA:
> "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not
> help."
>    -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
> 

Short answer: it is just for cleanness in /
Long answer: *.so files are only needed at compile-time so they are better 
placed in /usr than in / . The dynamic loader finds libz.so.1 
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