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Re: Default location for src install
- To: Andrej dot Borsenkow at mow dot siemens dot ru
- Subject: Re: Default location for src install
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:08:07 -0500
- CC: Cygwin at Sourceware dot Cygnus dot Com
- References: <000001c04244$27ecbed0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>
> If I select src's in new setup, they are installed under cygwin root. Is it
> intentional? It looks, like /usr/src is better (default) choice.
They install wherever the tarball says to install them. We've been
following the GNU convention of source tarballs installing in a
subdirectory named after the package/version.
Of course, if you can convince us to special-case source tarballs,
we'd accept a patch to change setup to force them into /usr/src.
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