Re: file permissions in XForms distributions

Dr. T.C. Zhao (zhao@bragg.phys.uwm.edu)
Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:38:31 -0600

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From: spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont)
>Personally, my pet peeve with the install is that it installs to
/usr/include, /usr/lib, /usr/man, and /usr/bin,
I think the binary goes /usr/local/bin.
A long time ago, library did go to /usr/local,
but the amount of "bug reports" of unresolved externals
convinved me that putting everything in /usr/local by
default was not a good idea.

>I'd be much handier if there was a
> INSTALLTOP=/usr
>and then everything else relative to it:
> LIB_DIR=$(INSTALLTOP)/lib

Great idea.

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