Hendrik Boom wrote at 11/13/2011 09:21 AM:
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 02:12:30PM -0500, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
Jay Riddle wrote at 11/12/2011 12:45 PM:
What is the option to get Racket to install to the standard unix
directories? I have compiled Racket 5.2 on a Ubuntu 11.10. I have
done a quick test of DrRacket and it appears to be working.
Do you mean by using the "--prefix=/usr/local" or "--prefix=/usr"
option to "configure" before you compile?
BTW, rather than use the standard Unix directories, I would use
"--prefix=/usr/local/racket-5.2", because I like to have multiple
versions of Racket installed at the same time.
Perhaps he means following the Linux file-system standard, with
executables in one place, libraries in another, and so forth.
Perhaps the answer is for him to look at the Debian source package for
Racket (or PLT Scheme if you've got an older distro) and see how they do
it.
That's what the "--prefix=/usr/local" or "--prefix=/usr" is for. That
same mechanism (what "configure" uses for the "prefix") is how most
GNU/Linux software packages are configured to install in the standard
places nowadays. A "configure" "prefix" of "/usr" results in pathnames
like "/usr/bin/racket".
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