There seems to be multiple interpretations for the exact purpose of
/usr/local. It looks like it originally was meant to hold files local to
the computer when /usr was shared among different hosts. There days it
looks like a secondary /usr tree in case you don't want to touch the
"official" system's /usr, for example when installing software manually
with make install, or when the application is not managed by the system's
package manager. I install my scripts collection
<https://code.launchpad.net/~renatosilva/+junk/scripts> to /usr/local for
example (in MSYS, MSYS2 and unixies).
I guess the distinction between msys, 32 and 64-bit software is more
applicable to pacman packages, which are not subject to /usr/local anyway.
If you still want it, I think it would be better doing this instead:
- Create */usr/local/mingw32 *for 32-bit windows programs
- Create */usr/local/mingw64* for 64-bit windows software
- Use*/usr/local* for msys and platform-agnostic programs
2014-08-28 10:10 GMT-03:00 Richard Shaw <[email protected]>:
> This isn't unique to msys2, but to msys/mingw as well.
>
> Where are user compiled libraries supposed to go? I've ready warnings
> about NOT putting them with the libraries provided by msys/msys2/mingw/etc,
> but have not seen a straightforward solution.
>
> Maybe I'm just dense, but isn't that the whole point of /usr/local on a
> full *nix system?
>
> For instance, I'm using msys2 to build a program called FreeDV, it has a
> dependency provided by the same project called codec2. Perhaps in the long
> run I'll see about making official packages, but right now I just want to
> build them.
>
> Where should I "install" codec2?
>
> For now I'm cheating since I'm only building for 32bit windows and just
> created a C:/msys32/usr/local directory and it's worked OK so far, but
> really it needs to be mapped to /msys32/mingw32/usr/local and
> /msys32/mingw64/usr/local depending on which environment I'm running,
> correct?
>
> Can this be easily done through fstab or fstab.d?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
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