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Re: lesstif mwm bug
- From: Harold L Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:45:05 EDT
- Subject: Re: lesstif mwm bug
Chris,
> I don't think I ever gave an opinion on the /usr/bin vs.
> /usr/X11R6/bin.
I'm going to dig up your message when I get home. I *know* that you did say
to use /usr as the prefix.
> 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.
I don't care what the prefix is, just so long as I can blame someone else :)
I believe the main problem with using /usr/X11R6 as the prefix is
that /usr/X11R6/bin is not in most users PATH, nor is /usr/X11R6/lib in their
lib search path, nor is /usr/X11R6/include in their includes search paths...
etc. It may end up being a lot of trouble to use anything other than /usr as
the prefix.
Harold
Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:
> 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
>