From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14318 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2001 23:24:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14284 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2001 23:24:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO itdomain003.itdomain.net.au) (203.63.157.208) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2001 23:24:17 -0000 Received: from lifelesswks ([144.137.124.227]) by itdomain003.itdomain.net.au with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.3779); Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:24:16 +1100 Message-ID: <06f101c16e2c$e76dbe70$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Stipe Tolj" Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" References: <5314439342.20011114212805@familiehaase.de> <3BF2D797.B0481987@ece.gatech.edu> <20011114211942.GB9636@redhat.com> <1119104841.20011114224550@familiehaase.de> <3BF3C479.B1E97461@wapme-systems.de> <05c601c16e23$68c9f060$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <3BF44E43.131ED7C9@wapme-systems.de> Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:26:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Nov 2001 23:24:16.0932 (UTC) FILETIME=[A505C640:01C16E2C] X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00366.txt.bz2 === ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stipe Tolj" To: "Robert Collins" Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:22 AM Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up > > Why should apache go to /usr/local/apache? Name one redhat/suse/debian > > style amanaged linux distribution that puts apache there! The configure > > script for _any_ package will need parameters given to it when building > > a package to be included in cygwin. > > > > Until now, no-one as raised the issue of changing _our_ standard, which > > is that setup.exe installed software installs into / and /usr, not into > > /usr/local. And I do not think we should change that. I don't believe > > that the users will be served by us installing into /usr/local. > > If you consider point 3) from down I agree. There are some packages > that do install into /usr/local, or am I wrong here?! No packages install into /usr/local on cygwin at the moment - you are wrong here. What a configure script defaults to is different to where *we* install stuff. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/