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authorDavid J. MacKenzie <djm@gnu.org>1994-11-11 04:33:24 +0000
committerDavid J. MacKenzie <djm@gnu.org>1994-11-11 04:33:24 +0000
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Explain reason for new filesystem layout.
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@@ -401,7 +401,9 @@ installed.
Installation directories should always be named by variables, so it is
easy to install in a nonstandard place. The standard names for these
-variables are as follows.
+variables are described below. They are based on a standard filesystem
+layout; variants of it are used in SVR4, 4.4BSD, Linux, Ultrix v4, and
+other modern operating systems.
These two variables set the root for the installation. All the other
installation directories should be subdirectories of one of these two,
@@ -411,7 +413,8 @@ and nothing should be directly installed into these two directories.
@item prefix
A prefix used in constructing the default values of the variables listed
below. The default value of @code{prefix} should be @file{/usr/local}
-(at least for now).
+When building the complete GNU system, the prefix will be empty and
+@file{/usr} will be a symbolic link to @file{/}.
@item exec_prefix
A prefix used in constructing the default values of some of the