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Explain reason for new filesystem layout.

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David J. MacKenzie 1994-11-11 04:33:24 +00:00
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@ -401,7 +401,9 @@ installed.
Installation directories should always be named by variables, so it is
easy to install in a nonstandard place. The standard names for these
variables are as follows.
variables are described below. They are based on a standard filesystem
layout; variants of it are used in SVR4, 4.4BSD, Linux, Ultrix v4, and
other modern operating systems.
These two variables set the root for the installation. All the other
installation directories should be subdirectories of one of these two,
@ -411,7 +413,8 @@ and nothing should be directly installed into these two directories.
@item prefix
A prefix used in constructing the default values of the variables listed
below. The default value of @code{prefix} should be @file{/usr/local}
(at least for now).
When building the complete GNU system, the prefix will be empty and
@file{/usr} will be a symbolic link to @file{/}.
@item exec_prefix
A prefix used in constructing the default values of some of the