Re: Installation directory confusion

From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@1407.org)
Date: Mon Aug 19 2002 - 18:43:59 EDT

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    On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 11:18:12PM +0200, j.m.maurer wrote:
    > This one is bugging me for a while now: diving make installs AbiWord in
    > /usr/share, while the auto* build installs AbiWord in /usr/local/share.
    > Could both build systems install in the same directory or is there some
    > deeper meaning of it that I can't seem to get?
    > if not, I would vote for using /usr/share, but only due to the fact that
    > RH uses that path....
    > Any objections?

    Not exactly an objection since I haven't read the G/LSB but I suggest
    that we install (at least on GNU/Linuces) according to the G/LSB [1].

    That way, we'll have a lot less trouble!

    Hugs, rms

    [1] http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/index.shtml





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