James R. Phillips wrote:
--- Christopher Faylor wrote:
FWIW, I don't think we want to start a precedent of official cygwin releases
installing things in /usr/local.
The intent of the packaging design is that the official cygwin binary release
would _not_ install anything in /usr/local. However, with installation of the
source package, it would be possible to build the locally optimized atlas
libraries. These would be compiled from source and installed by a local
administrator. That being the case, the preferred location would be
/usr/local, per fhs guidelines.
The binary release, as initially designed, would install link libraries in
/usr/lib and dlls in /usr/bin. However, locating the dlls in /usr/bin is
problematic, because they become impossible to override with path manipulations
for binaries living in /usr/bin. So this part of the design needs to be
revised. After thinking about it, I don't think use of the /opt tree makes
that much sense; probably the easiest modification is to create a
/usr/bin/lapack subdirectory for the nonoptimized libraries to live in, and add
it to the back of the path in an init.d script. This is what I am leaning
towards.
No subdirectories below /usr/bin, please.
To be honest, I cannot follow the discussion. Why is it not possible to
put the DLLs into /usr/bin? Is there another official package which
includes the same libraries?
Gerrit
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