Danny Backx wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 10:23 +0000, Pedro Alves wrote: > >>Danny Backx wrote: >> >>>The reason I'm also asking about the installation path is I'd want to >>>create an RPM based on these scripts. Do we keep the funky path for now >>>(I used to do the same with my scripts in scripts/linux), or do we move >>>to a "standard" place. >>> >> >>What do you have in mind as a "standard" place? > > > Isn't PREFIX=/usr/local the standard ? > > I can't find an accurate description (but one that comes close is on > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Directory-Variables, > see below). > > My understanding has always been that system components should > install with PREFIX=/usr and others (additional software, "local" > packages) with PREFIX=/usr/local . >
cegcc's first releases used to set PREFIX=/usr/local. At the time I was convinced that was the best place. I remember Chad J saying it wasn't nice. I didn't agree at the time, but now I do. :) Although his complain was about not being easy to remove the toolchain, since it gets mingled up with other apps, my agreement comes from the fact that I was already bitten by having cegcc headers installed on /usr/local/include ($prefix/include), and the system compiler picking those up. Pretty nasty. I think cross-toolchains are special, in the sense that they shouldn't be mixed with the system headers/libs. I don't have an official pointer describing it, but it seems everybody does it. If we moved to /usr/local, it would be to /usr/local/cegcc and /usr/local/mingw32 to avoid those problems. Googling around, it looks that /opt/ whatever is more used for crosses than /usr/local/$whatever/ google: "/opt" cross http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2Fusr%2Flocal%22+cross 1.550.000 results google: "/usr/local" cross http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2Fopt%22+cross 708.000 results google: "/opt/cross" cross http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2Fopt%2Fcross%22+cross 860 results google: "/usr/local/cross" cross http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fcross%22+cross 636 results And nicer googlefight versions of the above: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?word1=%2Fopt+cross&word2=%2Fusr%2Flocal+cross http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?word1=%2Fopt%2Fcross+cross&word2=%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fcross+cross Cheers, Pedro Alves ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Cegcc-devel mailing list Cegcc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cegcc-devel
