On 21 Apr 2011, at 10:59, Dov Grobgeld wrote: > There is no such thing as default folder under Linux/Unix. The user might > want to install an application in her home directory, or in /opt, or in > /usr/bin depending on permissions or the visibility of the application. > Perhaps you meant to ask if it is possible to know where the application was > run from? In that case just check argv[0].
Thanks Dov. Strictly speaking of course, the same is true for Windows since there's nothing that inherently forces any user to install their files under "C:\Program Files". It's just a common convention. What I wanted to find out is if there are similar concepts on the other platforms. In my Linux distro (64studio), /bin and /opt can only be written to by root - whereas /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin can be written to by anyone. .usr/bin seems to contain what I'd loosely call "operating system programs", whereas /usr/local/bin seems to contain (again very loosely) programs that I've installed myself. I was just wondering if that's a general convention? Here's what the manual for automake says:- " After everything has been built, and maybe tested, it is time to install it on the system. [...] The command make install will do that. However, by default everything will be installed in subdirectories of ‘/usr/local’: binaries will go into ‘/usr/local/bin’, libraries will end up in ‘/usr/local/lib’. " I realise that automake is only one of several build systems but it seems to suggest that '/usr/local' is its default install location if nothing else was specified. So I guess the question I'm asking is whether or not, by convention, /usr/local and /usr/local/bin will tend to have universal read, write and execute permissions. They do in my distro but there are many other distros..! John _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
