[Olsr-dev] change default install location to /usr/local

[Ferry Huberts]

On 06-06-12 11:36, Teco Boot wrote:
> I had some time to check this.
> Almost all tools I install are located in /usr/, not /usr/local/
> I use /usr/local/ for stuff I put there myself.
> So a mature piece of software like olsrd deserves to be stored in /usr/.
>

Hans is right in this regard:
The convention is to install into /usr/local when installing from 
source. Only when you package, then you change the location to /usr.

One of the purposes is to be able to install packages from your 
distribution in parallel to stuff you build yourself.


> What we should do is deliver complete install packages, to be used by many.
>
> How can we get olsrd 0.6.3 in Debian? Backport to Squeeze?
> Roland?
>
> My 2ct.
> Teco
>
>
> Op 31 mei 2012, om 21:57 heeft Hans-Christoph Steiner het volgende geschreven:
>
>>
>> On May 31, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Ferry Huberts wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31-05-12 20:02, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I would like to include this patch to change the default Linux install location to /usr/local, which is the generally accepted UNIX standard for user-installed programs.  Currently, it installs into /usr, which is set aside for system-installed programs (apt-get, yum, etc.  This patch also includes the standard Makefile variables $DESTDIR, $prefix, and $libdir, for standardized overriding of those locations (i.e. make prefix=/usr).
>>>>
>>>> Any objections?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not too thrilled about this so close to a new release, can we please postpone it until after 0.6.3?
>>
>> IMHO, this is not a feature, this is a bug fix.  The vast majority of free software uses /usr/local as the default install location, this is the default behavior of build systems like autotools and ./configure, cmake, etc.  /usr/local is also widely documented as the place for user-installed software (i.e. outside of the system's packages and updates):
>>
>> http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY
>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/introduction/position.html
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>>> diff --git a/make/Makefile.linux b/make/Makefile.linux
>>>> index e73be7c..02fb99f 100644
>>>> --- a/make/Makefile.linux
>>>> +++ b/make/Makefile.linux
>>>> @@ -3,8 +3,12 @@
>>>> #
>>>>
>>>> ARCH := $(shell uname -m)
>>>> +
>>>> DESTDIR ?=
>>>> -LIBDIR =       $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib
>>>> +prefix ?= /usr/local
>>>> +libdir ?= $(prefix)/lib
>>>> +
>>>> +LIBDIR =       $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)
>>>>
>>>> SRCS +=        $(wildcard src/linux/*.c src/unix/*.c)
>>>> HDRS +=                $(wildcard src/linux/*.h src/unix/*.h)
>>>
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>>> Ferry Huberts
>>
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