Dennis Heuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm not shure about what the LSB says to this but many progs search for > tools at places where they aren't. for example, i have the coreutils in > /usr but firefox, since verison 3 (minefield), tries to start /bin/ls > from the start-script. possibly that's where ls should be. i'm not > shure. however, i remembered glibc and the special --prefix=/usr > option, which is interpreted as "system main installation". glibc then > installs to both / and /usr and creates symlinks as it is expected to > be ever since under linux. possibly, coreutils could offer such an > (LSB-compliant or historically correct) prefix or special option to put > the single tools to their 'correct' or 'common' places.
This has historically been the domain of distribution packagers. Sorry, but I don't expect coreutils to provide special options to ease installation into e.g., multiple bin directories. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
