Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 07/19/05 16:33 CST: > My personal preference is to put everything in /usr since that for me > proved to have the least maintainence. No more hacks needed for PATH, > CPPFLAGS, PKG_CONFIG_PATH, ...
I've never looked at having to add something to the PATH or PKG_CONFIG_PATH vars as a hack. I look at it as sysadmin. > Except for a small fraction of packages that hardcode /usr/X11R6, most > of the packages have no problems finding X that is installed in /usr > (or /opt/X as long as the proper env vars are defined). I suppose. However, I'm not sure "small fraction" is accurate. :-) I guess, being very old school when it comes to Unix, that since /usr/X11R? has been a valid (and only) path for the installation of X windows on most of the Unix operating systems I've worked on over the years, that I simply *expect* it to be there. :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 16:40:00 up 108 days, 16:13, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.04 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
