[Gambas-devel] Gambas packages

[Benoit Minisini]

On jeudi 29 novembre 2007, Fabien Bodard wrote:
> Le Thursday 29 November 2007 10:42:22 ron, vous avez écrit :
> > On Thursday 29 November 2007 10:27, Fabien Bodard wrote:
> > > Is it normal that the gamas suse package and maybe others install
> > > binaries in the /usr/local/bin directory despite to the /usr/bin one ?
> >
> > If you compile from source it was in /opt/gambas with suse 8.x/9.0
> > For suse 9.2 I found it indeed in /usr/local as base.
> >
> > In fact as far I know /usr is for worldwide distro compiled and packaged
> > and /user/local used for user(root) made on his own.
> > This way ther wil be no conflicts between distro version and modified
> > user version.
> >
> > Order for the executable path is /usr/local/bin;/usr/bin
> >
> > So it sounds logic for me you found it there. :)
> >
> > Ron
> >
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> so in a near future it will be /usr/bin
>
> at less for the 2.0 release
>
> If i understand well :)
>
>
> Fabien
>

The /usr/local is the default prefix used by the ./configure script when you 
compile the package. If you want another prefix, you must specify it 
to ./configure by using the --prefix option.

Distribution packagers will usually change the prefix to /usr, or /opt. It is 
as they want.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini