Linux Hierarchy

From: Dave (dfisher_at_pophost.com)
Date: 2002-03-02 07:13:00


On Fri, 01 Mar 2002 05:14:24 -0600, Doug Sutherland wrote:

>4) On my system, the libraries for both SDL and FFTW install to
> /usr/local/lib by default. I like it this way, I prefer all
> non-distribution stuff to be in /usr/local so it's very clear
> what was the OS distribution and what I added. I put all add-on
> software in /usr/local, and every package I've tried that uses
> "make install" puts stuff in /usr/local (including bin, lib,
> src, man, etc). This seems to be pretty standard among unix
> admin types. I noticed that Jim's make file has the SDLLIB
> set to /usr/lib, I changed mine to /usr/local/lib.

For everything you ever wanted to know about the filesystem heirarchy, and were
afriad to ask:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs

It still seems a bit vague concerning /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib, but I like
the latter also. I dislike programs that populate themselves all throughout
that OS.

>Now on to Windows, God help me ... <g>

Sympathy card on the way....

Dave.



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