X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43D40645.5030803@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:25:09 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: installation location of packages References: <43D3F587.3070600@verysmall.org> In-Reply-To: <43D3F587.3070600@verysmall.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com pobox wrote: > 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. > > Is that true No, not generally. Of course, if you're having a specific issue and want to post the details, then perhaps someone on the list can make a more specific comment or suggestion. > and if yes are there anywhere instructions where these > locations are so that they can be pointed to applications depending on > them, when such applications are compiled. At the moment I am trying to > compile Cyrus IMAP and as it seems I have to compile from source a lot > of stuff it requires because things do not seem to find the cygwin > packages, though these packages are installed. > Did you run configure? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/