From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: "util-linux@vger.kernel.org" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: configure --prefix default
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:26:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201201191226.19529.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F17FE0D.4080901@bernhard-voelker.de>
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On Thursday 19 January 2012 06:27:09 Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Usually, software built via `configure && make && make install` uses
> /usr/local as default for the prefix. Is there any reason for util-linux
> not to use the same?
>
> BTW: `configure --help` states that it would use /usr as default prefix:
>
> --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
> [/usr]
>
> ... but in fact e.g. chcpu is installed as "/sbin/chcpu" (i.e. without
> /usr). This doesn't sound correct.
look at the configure output. if you don't specify a value yourself, the
default paths are tweaked to be a more natural install with some in / and some
in /usr.
> If someone relies on /usr/local as the default, then
> she overwrites the native version of the files of his distribution.
that's a PEBKAC issue. anyone blindly doing `make install` is doomed to
killing their machine.
-mike
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2012-01-19 11:27 configure --prefix default Bernhard Voelker
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