[Box Backup-dev] Makefile.extra?

Martin Ebourne boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Fri Feb 24 13:07:58 GMT 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 12:46 +0000, James O'Gorman wrote:
> I'm pretty sure most/all Linux distros install perl to /usr/bin/perl too?

Yes. Given it's so fundamental to so many things it would seem odd to
put it anywhere else. :)

The Linux Standards Base essentially says that /usr is for stuff
compiled by distributors, /usr/local by users, and /opt for third party
ISVs. Most people take that to mean anything properly packaged goes
in /usr, anything make install goes in /usr/local, and commercial binary
things not properly packaged go in /opt. For once a standards
organisation doing something sensible. :)

PREFIX clean is good though, and I'd be interested in taking any fixes
back into mainline.

Cheers,

Martin.




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