On Thursday 19 January 2012 06:27:09 Bernhard Voelker wrote: > Usually, software built via `configure && make && make install` uses > /usr/local as default for the prefix. Is there any reason for util-linux > not to use the same? > > BTW: `configure --help` states that it would use /usr as default prefix: > > --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX > [/usr] > > ... but in fact e.g. chcpu is installed as "/sbin/chcpu" (i.e. without > /usr). This doesn't sound correct. look at the configure output. if you don't specify a value yourself, the default paths are tweaked to be a more natural install with some in / and some in /usr. > If someone relies on /usr/local as the default, then > she overwrites the native version of the files of his distribution. that's a PEBKAC issue. anyone blindly doing `make install` is doomed to killing their machine. -mike
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