Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Andy Wingo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Bernardo, >> >> On Thu 26 May 2011 01:32, Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras < >> [email protected]> writes: >> >> > it tried the following steps from the developers page ( >> http://www.nongnu.org/guile-lib/dev/): >> > >> > git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guile-lib.git guile-lib >> > >> > cd guile-lib >> > ./autogen.sh --prefix=... && make >> >> Here the "..." is intended to be replaced by the prefix that you have >> Guile installed in. >> >> For example, >> >> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local && make >> >> Happy hacking, >> >> Andy >> -- >> http://wingolog.org/ >> > > in my ubuntu 10.10 box is > > ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr && make > > thanks![?] > This is potentially dangerous, and generally not a good idea: /usr is reserved for the distribution's package manager, and the system adminstrator (i.e. you) should not install software there; that's what /usr/local (and /opt) is for. See the FHS[0] (specifically, [1]) for more information about filesystem layout on GNU/Linux systems.
[0] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
