On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 09:12:41PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Tom Russo wrote: > > > No, libgeotiff (right up to the current 1.3.0 release candidate) uses > > standard > > autoconf, and therefore its standard install location is > > /usr/local/{include,bin,share}. > > > > Package maintainers for linux always change the install directory with > > --prefix-/usr to override the default --prefix=/usr/local. Apparently the > > new > > trend is to further stuff headers for dev-packages into subdirectories > > (presumably to satisfy some other goal, maybe to keep differing packages > > from > > potentially clobbering each other). But this is 100% a package-maintainer > > thing that has nothing to do with what libgeotiff's makefiles would have > > done. > > Verified. Change backed out. This is getting annoying to me that > the Linux package maintainers are not only diverging from accepted > practices but also diverging in different directions.
Yes, it is annoying. It's like the 80's again --- back when we had to edit Makefile's by hand every time we ported a code from system to system. As a BSD nerd, I'm even annoyed by the Linux convention of putting prepacked, but third-party, stuff into /usr instead of /usr/local, but there you have it. At least configure gives a straightforward technique for dealing with it. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
