> > Since pcre-config is also installed and tells other packages the > > library and links were installed in /usr/lib, wouldn't it be more > > appropriate, safer, to leave them as installed and create "grep > > links" in /lib here? I'm curious why you did it this way. > > I'm guessing this is because the LFS book still supports the split > between '/' and '/usr'. FHS mandates that the system should be able to > bootup using only the binaries and libraries in '/' if '/usr' is a > separate partition.
Thanks, Mikel. Who *still* does that? I did it myself back in the day drives were "small", but these days it's hard to buy a drive less than a terabyte! (My history with computing is long enough *that* can occasionally cause me to shake my head in disbelief!) So, seriously, when is that done? I suppose sharing a /usr branch, but I can't imagine wanting to do that over a network, ala NFS, so it'd have to be all on the same system. Containers? (I don't *do* very esoteric configurations.) But even then, wouldn't it be better to use "./configure --prefix=/" so everything stays where pcre-config knows it was put? -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - Access your email from home and the web -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
