Re: [GLUG-tech] Debian standard file locations ? When compiling new aplications ..

[Mark Coetser <mark@etech.co.za>]

well do a dpkg -L for an installed package and see where it installs the
files then do the same for your configure

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:42, Gregory Machin wrote:
> when compling a new aplication gcc ./configure allows you to use the
> following to configure the location of relavent files, what paths
> should i specify for debian so that i may keep with the standards
> ..   
>  
> Fine tuning of the installation directories:
>   --bindir=DIR           user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
>   --sbindir=DIR          system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
>   --libexecdir=DIR       program executables [EPREFIX/libexec]
>   --datadir=DIR          read-only architecture-independent data
> [PREFIX/share]
>   --sysconfdir=DIR       read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]
>   --sharedstatedir=DIR   modifiable architecture-independent data
> [PREFIX/com]
>   --localstatedir=DIR    modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
>   --libdir=DIR           object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
>   --includedir=DIR       C header files [PREFIX/include]
>   --oldincludedir=DIR    C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include]
>   --infodir=DIR          info documentation [PREFIX/info]
>   --mandir=DIR           man documentation [PREFIX/man]
>  
> Gregory Machin
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