=== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stipe Tolj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:22 AM Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up
> > Why should apache go to /usr/local/apache? Name one redhat/suse/debian > > style amanaged linux distribution that puts apache there! The configure > > script for _any_ package will need parameters given to it when building > > a package to be included in cygwin. > > > > Until now, no-one as raised the issue of changing _our_ standard, which > > is that setup.exe installed software installs into / and /usr, not into > > /usr/local. And I do not think we should change that. I don't believe > > that the users will be served by us installing into /usr/local. > > If you consider point 3) from down I agree. There are some packages > that do install into /usr/local, or am I wrong here?! No packages install into /usr/local on cygwin at the moment - you are wrong here. What a configure script defaults to is different to where *we* install stuff. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
