hi Peter,
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:18:33AM +0100, Peter 'Luna' Runestig wrote:
>
> I just built and installed xfsprogs-1.3.13, and got a little surprise.
> ...
> but PREFIX actually defaults to /usr (from configure.in):
>
Yes, this is because we need to install some stuff to /sbin
and some to /usr/sbin, and I wanted to have a default which
would install to a place that most people would expect the
sort of binaries that are in xfsprogs to go.
> This actually rules out the '--prefix' switch altogether, so the './configure
> --help' help text probably should be changed, if this unorthodox 'prefix'
> handling is desired.
>
> The surprise? Well, I wanted it all to install in /usr/local ...
This part (--prefix in the usage message) of the configure
output is not configurable, afaict, so I couldn't remove it.
Perhaps an alternate way for us to do this would be to support
--prefix (for /usr/sbin stuff) and --root-prefix (for /sbin)..
I've just never got around to it, and its not very high on the
priority list right now.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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