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On 2/15/2011 4:17 AM, Fergus wrote:
>>> The source is here:
>>> ftp://mama.indstate.edu/linux/tree/
>>> edit the Makefile to uncomment the Cygwin section and it will build
> cleanly.
> 
> Yes, works perfectly.
> FWIW: I wish I'd edited the Makefile additionally to so that
> prefix = /usr/local
> rather than the default /usr (but this is just a personal preference for
> the location of extras).
> Fergus

I use stow for this.

Like so:

mkdir /usr/local/stow
mkdir /usr/local/stow/tree-1.5.3
make
make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/tree-1.5.3
cd /usr/local/stow
stow tree-1.5.3

Now you have a symlink, /usr/local/bin/tree .

To remove the symlinks, you just do:

cd /usr/local/stow
stow -D tree-1.5.3

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