Re: About the GNU's project's path (Please let them under /usr/gnu )

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From: K. Richard Pixley
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1992 21:08

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Modern version of all GNU release contain a shell script called
configure.  I've written patches for all configure scripts that I've
seen, to implement a comman line option, -prefix= to change the very
location you mention.

There is also now a -exec_prefix=.  exec_prefix defaults to prefix,
but this option changes it.  The point of exec_prefix is to place host
dependent files.  ie,

configure -prefix=/usr/gnu -exec_prefix=/usr/gnu/H-sun4

will build /usr/gnu/H-sun4/lib, /usr/gnu/H-sun4/bin, /usr/gnu/info,
etc.  If you also:

configure -prefix=/usr/gnu -exec_prefix=/usr/gnu/H-sun3

Then the sun3 and sun4 installations will share common directories for
info files, etc.

It will be some time before these changes make their way into all
versions of all tools.  But it's already coming.

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