Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:22:28 -0500 Message-Id: <200103081722.MAA05024@envy.delorie.com> X-Authentication-Warning: envy.delorie.com: dj set sender to dj@envy.delorie.com using -f From: DJ Delorie To: cloder@acm.org CC: cygwin@cygwin.com In-reply-to: <5.0.0.25.2.20010308064459.00aa5378@pop-server.socal.rr.com> (message from Chad Loder on Thu, 08 Mar 2001 07:00:59 -0800) Subject: Re: setup.exe ==> source directory mess (?) References: <5.0.0.25.2.20010308064459.00aa5378@pop-server.socal.rr.com> > Did I do something wrong? I expected the source packages to be > installed under /src or /usr/src -- I don't remember setup.exe > asking me to explicitly choose a location for these packages. This is the current default behavior. The tarballs are untarred with whatever directory structure they have, and the GNU default is to untar into a foo-x.y/ subdirectory. > If this is in fact the default behavior, it should be changed > IMHO...tell me if I'm mistaken. I'm not against it, but I don't have time to implement it. You'd have to special-case source tarballs in install.cc, and prefix /usr/src (or whatever) on each path as it's converted. It shouldn't be hard to do if someone wants an easy intro project... -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple