X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43D4DC41.2050308@byu.net> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:38:09 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "pobox@verysmall.org" CC: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD1NxB84KuGfSFAYARAv0kAKCJ8C8zwl+S+xyM9bSbe5hyEp1a8QCdF/Fv kpIKbB/Wx1SL5aNnlg+EHbQ= =tytV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/