Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r31321 - in /tools/make/trunk: ChangeLog GNUstep.conf.in configure configure.ac

[Nicola Pero]

> > > If you configure GNUstep using the FHS layout on *BSD, it puts  
> > > stuff in completely the wrong place (it puts GNUstep.conf in the  
> > > wrong place with any configuration, unfortunately).
> >
> > For example ? (ignoring GNUstep.conf which we agree it's wrong on  
> > FHS as well)
>
> Unless you explicitly set the prefix, it doesn't put things under / 
> usr/local (or didn't, last time I accidentally used FHS mode), it  
> put things in /usr, which is reserved for stuff in the base system  
> that is not required to boot single-user mode.  I didn't look much  
> beyond that.

That is no different than what FHS/Linux expect.  And it should work ;-)

--with-layout=fhs (the default that we are probably switching to)  
should use /usr/local/

--with-layout-fhs-system (reserved for distribution packagers) should  
use /usr/

Of course, if it didn't work for you it sounds like there may be a bug  
- it's worth testing all of this again if it's going to be the  
default! ;-)


> By the way, there is a relatively simple way of using the GNUstep  
> layout in FHS-compliant mode: install in /opt/GNUstep.  FHS  
> explicitly allows installing add-on software in /opt/{package  
> name}/.  Of course, many FHS-compliant Linux distros don't allocated  
> adequate space for /opt, or don't create it at all, so this doesn't  
> actually work...

Yep

Thanks