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Re: FS layout issues for v1.1 (eg., /bin and /usr/bin)
- To: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: FS layout issues for v1.1 (eg., /bin and /usr/bin)
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:03:19 -0500
- Cc: Andrew Dalgleish <andrewd at axonet dot com dot au>, "'cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <00F8D6E8AB0DD3118F1A006008186C960B9C73@server1.axonet.com.au> <200003011712.LAA03579@hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:12:10AM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>[1] The Cygwin tree is designed to use the prefix/exec-prefix all the
>way, and to have separate /bin, /usr/bin, /lib, /usr/lib, we need to
>make certain packages use `prefix=/' (bash, parts of winsup) and
>others `prefix=/usr' (just about everything else), and it's simply
>a maintainence headache for what I see minimal benefit.
Ditto.
cgf