[nylug-talk] LSB/FHS filesystem silliness, developer silliness

[jh]

Dan Crosta wrote:
> Michael B Allen wrote:
>> There's no such thing as /bin/objs*. Clearly something was lost in
>> translation between the developer's brain and yours. Ask them for
>> clarificaiton.
> 
> The name 'objs' rings familiar to me as something I used to use for 
> compiling .o files before linking into a binary -- is it possible the 
> developer/support person was referring to the layout within a compiled 
> source area rather than the layout of the installed binary program? That 
> might also explain the capital B in /Bin.
> 
Turns out to be a bit of both, plus some bad communications thrown in. 
The support person assumed that I had untarred to /, which would have 
created a /Bin directory. This is apparently what "all their customers 
do", or what they're told to do when they're walked through installation 
of the product, and why all of their customers have /Bin directories 
hanging around.

Oh boy. This is going to be fun.

jh