Re: Debian standard file locations ? When compiling new aplications ..

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello,

the rule is to put everthing in the /usr/local directory
( PREFIX=/usr/local )
except for the sysconfdir which should be /etc

Note that you can put your policy in the file
config.site (see the documentation relative to autoconf for further 
information).

hth,
Jerome

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