installation location of packages

[pobox@verysmall.org]

Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to pobox@verysmall.org on 1/22/2006 2:13 PM:
>> It seems to me that the cygwin packages are installed in different
>> locations than the locations they would go if ./compile make make
>> install are performed on the source.
> 
> Yes, many packages default to an installation prefix of /usr/local if no
> options were given to ./configure, while cygwin packages intentionally
> override this with ./configure --prefix=/usr.  This distinction is
> recommended by the FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) so that you can
> compile local updates of your favorite programs to /usr/local/bin without
> overwriting the shipped system programs in /usr/bin.  But if you use
> setup.exe to grab the sources, every one of those src tarballs should come
> with directions (and usually with a script) that tells you exactly which
> options were passed to ./configure when building the official cygwin
> release of that package.

Thanks a lot for the clarification!

Iv.


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