Re: OpenGL packaging

[Andre Bleau <andre dot bleau at courriel dot polymtl dot ca>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>If I may jump in here. The complete configure should at least set
>--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/sbin

You may jump anywhere, as long as you do not jump on ME ;-)


>The rest is typically automagically correct. However, it would be
>nice to check if the local state directory is configured as well:
>
>--localstatedir=/var
>
>Some packages don't know that setting then it's all one of course.
>
> > If I take the
> > /usr/include/GL spot for the Win32/OpenGL package, my include files will be
> > used independently of -I options, as files in /usr/include have priority
> > over those in directories specified by -I; that would make life harder for
>
>Nope. From `info gcc':
>
>`-IDIR'
>      Add the directory DIR to the head of the list of directories to be
>      searched for header files.  This can be used to override a system
>      header file, substituting your own version, since these
>      directories are searched before the system header file
>      directories.  If you use more than one `-I' option, the
>      directories are scanned in left-to-right order; the standard
>      system directories come after.

Then I have no more objection about moving the OpenGL package to /usr. I 
just don't understand what is so basicaly wrong about locating it in 
/usr/local. Again, I'm NOT using "configure" to package it.

André Bleau, ing., analyste
bleau@courriel.polymtl.ca

Département de génie électrique et         Electric Engineering and
de génie informatique                      Computer Engineering department
École Polytechnique de Montréal            Montreal Polytechnic School


--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com