On Dec 18 17:16, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Stipe Tolj wrote: > > [snip] > > > 5) There are no port notes in the Cygwin-specific README, even though > > > there are some user-visible changes in the patch, such as changing the > > > prefix to /usr and removing the "-s" linker flag (any particular reason > > > why you did that?) > > > > -s linker flag put in place again (was a simple typo). So we get > > stripping again. I don't see any needs for port notes to be honest. > > Well, I think changing the prefix from /usr/local to /usr is a pretty > serious change, in a sense that someone familiar with the package and > wanting to install it on their system will download it, run "make; make > install", and get the packages in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin where > they would expect them. IMO, it deserves a mention in the port notes, but > I'm not going to hold up the release of a package because of this.
Do I understand that right? There's a patch which changes the default prefix? Is it really necessary to patch the package to install into /usr by default? That sounds rather superfluous and irritating. Usually, when a user calls `configure', the default prefix is /usr/local and if that's not what the user wants, she calls `configure --prefix=/usr'. Better add a Cygwin README which tells the user which configure options to use to create the Cygwin net release package. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.
