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According to pobox AT verysmall DOT 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.

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