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| author | David J. MacKenzie <djm@gnu.org> | 1994-11-11 04:33:24 +0000 |
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| committer | David J. MacKenzie <djm@gnu.org> | 1994-11-11 04:33:24 +0000 |
| commit | b2c0446e712950e94d1d7468c3dbca022d12f4de (patch) | |
| tree | 76a27ea50cd160cb8f49074f69743903ede320c7 /make-stds.texi | |
| parent | 8f98ceb724f47d5af2fa3a62b0939e941c32d631 (diff) | |
| download | gunmake-b2c0446e712950e94d1d7468c3dbca022d12f4de.tar.gz | |
Explain reason for new filesystem layout.
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diff --git a/make-stds.texi b/make-stds.texi index 95a42ec..e19d61a 100644 --- a/make-stds.texi +++ b/make-stds.texi @@ -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 |