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Re: lesstif mwm bug


On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 02:41:03PM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote:
>>One other thing: please keep the lesstif cygwin packages (on
>>sourceforge and the 'official' cygwin-XFree86 package) synchronised:
>>i.e agree on same prefix etc.  Maybe the sourceforge page should point
>>to the official cygwin-XFree86 package in the future.  I do not want to
>>end up with mwm.exe in both /usr/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin and libXm.a,
>>libMrm.a and libUil.a in both /usr/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib.
>
>This is sort of a 'growing pain'.  We'll be following the Cygwin standard of 
>using the /usr prefix.  I had discussed this on the list with Chris Faylor 
>and others and the conclusion was to use /usr as the prefix.  We will only 
>change this is some difficult problem arises for which there is no other 
>solution than to change the prefix for all the XFree86 packages.

I don't think I ever gave an opinion on the /usr/bin vs.
/usr/X11R6/bin.  My preference is that all official X stuff goes in
/usr/X11R6/bin but that seems to be counter to the way most modern
distributions do things.

So, I don't know that we have an actual policy.

cgf


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