On 2/8/07, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 20:40, steve crosby wrote:
> >
> > The change to "actual binaries" are really just shell script wrappers
> > - and they all add the following to the start of each script
> >
> > PATH="${GZIP_BINDIR-'/usr/bin'}:$PATH"; export PATH
> >
> > and then call gzip with the appropriate command line options. since we
> > pass prefix=/usr, the make install portion adds the /usr/bin, even
> > though we then move gzip to /bin.
>
> Well, we can fine tune the installation of the files. We could:
>
> ./configure --prefix='' --datarootdir=/usr/share
> make
> make check
> make install
> mv -v /bin/{gzexe,zcmp,zdiff,zegrep,zfgrep,zforce,zgrep,zless,zmore,znew}
> /usr/bin
Nitpicking, but wouldn't it clearer to do "./configure --prefix=/usr
--bindir=/bin" in this case? The mv wouldn't change, but it makes it
clearer that the intended effect is to put the binaries in /bin, not
make the prefix /.
> That installs gzip, gunzip and zcat in /bin, the other binaries in /usr/bin
> and all the docs in /usr/share. It also results in the following headers in
> the shell script wrappers:
>
> PATH="${GZIP_BINDIR-'/bin'}:$PATH"; export PATH
>
> I personally think that's much cleaner than `sed'ing makefiles and the like.
> What do you think?
I agree.
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Dan
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