where to put tarball

2003-06-04 Thread Robert Storey
I'm wondering where is the proper location to put a tarball (containing source code) that I've downloaded and want to untar and compile. In Linux, you generally would put it in /usr/src. I know all the FreeBSD documentation says /usr/local is where all your personalized software should go, but

[doc pointer] Re: where to put tarball

2003-06-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering where is the proper location to put a tarball (containing source code) that I've downloaded and want to untar and compile. In Linux, you generally would put it in /usr/src. I know all the FreeBSD documentation says /usr/local is where

Re: where to put tarball

2003-06-04 Thread Kliment Andreev
I'm wondering where is the proper location to put a tarball (containing source code) that I've downloaded and want to untar and compile. In Linux, you generally would put it in /usr/src. I know all the FreeBSD documentation says /usr/local is where all your personalized software I put the

Re: where to put tarball

2003-06-04 Thread Robert Storey
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:31:05 -0400 Kliment Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering where is the proper location to put a tarball (containing source code) that I've downloaded and want to untar and compile. In Linux, you generally would put it in /usr/src. I know all the FreeBSD

Re: where to put tarball

2003-06-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
Robert Storey wrote: Thanks Kliment. However, I wonder about uninstalling. If I think there's a possibility I'd want to uninstall later, don't I need to preserve the directory for a make uninstall? Or is there some other way to uninstall? If you want to be able to uninstall the software, you