From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:49414 "EHLO smtp.gentoo.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751545Ab2ASR0T (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:26:19 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger To: Bernhard Voelker Subject: Re: configure --prefix default Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:26:18 -0500 Cc: "util-linux@vger.kernel.org" References: <4F17FE0D.4080901@bernhard-voelker.de> In-Reply-To: <4F17FE0D.4080901@bernhard-voelker.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1848342.hTh5TSc4PV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Message-Id: <201201191226.19529.vapier@gentoo.org> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --nextPart1848342.hTh5TSc4PV Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? >=20 > BTW: `configure --help` states that it would use /usr as default prefix: >=20 > --prefix=3DPREFIX install architecture-independent files in PRE= =46IX > [/usr] >=20 > ... 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=20 default paths are tweaked to be a more natural install with some in / and s= ome=20 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=20 killing their machine. =2Dmike --nextPart1848342.hTh5TSc4PV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPGFI7AAoJEEFjO5/oN/WB32sQANy/TIjNuANOEHLARzfcvkKs r4DjLD2zl6a6Nsme5U8UdbfLs5XWkezvLru70gUrddkH0xQuYpafe8PGh1XY1E2e xzC3E3S6zztsn+cMSeY2rXJWifIiPZLpEQx1HM7A1rO/wCB444tTGFzKfIdkhjIL G8TXnooTMjHl0wENBR1XHQ3f4yINMa/UM0xZK7i30HPV1ydOotLyhWuu4ycTyKsh wMoknYoaEtmDsWbtMIiSsAs88fxCSRLIYY7HO1wH7sp4z3er5l4LBL+eD6EErwez u/gJQ3fr3lgAzuyLT6ZWhWihKn2hFLh1B/wW033Guo+8OKGV6SuJYUWQo+DUtflr ERO7mG8HwbYRylUaf3LKnmvLKRSqNEDReN2yrA90zJGulJy03dWC/EIb5h6ZF1zM BVCDfO19zxmT+0QXKgBJgUwix9CtVavX2T6nquup+WeWmtBq8j+vwf6zp1FU33By TeC+kHg88Yza6osmFzjiuxKTZCAgUnG7hIshLX+zWwGX1a+2+2hcCp69DDSqJUH8 lo7uDeaDxAH9S3iNOrqN+O7ZmEdmiF97QENG1+VSx+tGQtmDYXvlZ7p49Mtcdyvm RitlRe5qR7fcXde+ORMMo8nMsl8mA6K2CJhDMOjspFtrn5Oaa9V/gPF4bWTNoKeL 26yA3X/aETG3N+tNAX6M =CBKS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1848342.hTh5TSc4PV--