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Re: lesstif mwm bug
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:10:52 -0400
- Subject: Re: lesstif mwm bug
- References: <200205101841.g4AIf3W05080@pilot15.cl.msu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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