%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dm> Why did you change the prefix from /opt to /usr/local? /opt was dm> great and standardised with HPs install locations.. /usr/local is dm> a nightmare specially is /usr/local is an automounted location.
First, nothing was changed: the GNU project has been using /usr/local as the default location for installation of tools since forever. It never used /opt; /opt was invented after the FSF chose theirs by various commercial UNIX enterprises. Second, GNU software installs on all sorts of different operating systems, so choosing something because it's standard on one of them (HP) is not a good reason. Third, /usr/local does not have to be an automounted location and in fact, _usually_ it's not: just because it happens to be one at your site is not a good reason for the FSF not to use it. And fourth, the /usr/local prefix is just a _default_; if you don't like it you're free to change it to /opt or /fooblitsky or whatever else strikes your fancy: it's completely trivial to do this. See the INSTALL and README files in the source distribution. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make