Re: [guile-lib] configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: ...

[Andreas Rottmann]

Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bernardo,
>>
>> On Thu 26 May 2011 01:32, Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras <
>> address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > it tried the following steps from the developers page (
>> http://www.nongnu.org/guile-lib/dev/):
>> >
>> > git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guile-lib.git guile-lib
>> >
>> > cd guile-lib
>> > ./autogen.sh --prefix=... && make
>>
>> Here the "..." is intended to be replaced by the prefix that you have
>> Guile installed in.
>>
>> For example,
>>
>>  ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local && make
>>
>> Happy hacking,
>>
>> Andy
>> --
>> http://wingolog.org/
>>
>
> in my ubuntu 10.10 box  is
>
> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr && make
>
> thanks![?]
>
This is potentially dangerous, and generally not a good idea: /usr is
reserved for the distribution's package manager, and the system
adminstrator (i.e. you) should not install software there; that's what
/usr/local (and /opt) is for.  See the FHS[0] (specifically, [1]) for
more information about filesystem layout on GNU/Linux systems.

[0] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY

Regards, Rotty
-- 
Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>