Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/02/29/00:56:51
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 08:16:58PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>In the Linux FSS, they talk about /,/usr,/usr/local like this:
>
>* / is for programs that are required to boot the system to its normal
> multi-user mode. Nominally, these would be statically-linked
> programs to remove a dependence on the shared library system being
> operational.
>
>* /usr is for other standard user-level programs installed with the OS
> (or official packages) and is normally built with shared libraries.
>
>* /usr/local is for programs that are installed only on that machine
> (i.e. not part of the "standard" package).
>
>I recall that there is a minimum set of "expected" commands in /bin
>(like ls, cp, sh, etc) but since cygwin isn't involved in booting most
>of its software belongs in /usr. /usr/local should never be touched
>(except maybe to set up an empty directory structure) by the standard
>installer.
The problem is that you can't pick and choose. If you're doing a top-level
make from devo stuff is going to go to where you've set your prefix and
exec-prefix.
FWIW, I like Mumit's proposal. I think it is perfect. I hadn't considered
/lib == /usr/lib but I think that that is a good idea, too.
Mumit also suggested in private email that "cygcheck" do a little
rooting around in the directory structure to report how things were laid
out just in case an adverturous user decides to remove the /usr/bin
symbolic link.
cgf
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