maintaining bash

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:46:32PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr 10 13:28, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hans Horn wrote:
>>>Looks like bash2.x install in /usr/bin while bash3.x installs in
>>>/usr/local/bin.  Is that ok?
>>
>>No, it isn't.  Cygwin programs get installed in /usr/bin.  If the
>>upstream package doesn't go there by default, you'll need to patch the
>>sources in such a way that the files do get installed there.
>
>Urgh! Bold hint: ./configure --prefix=/usr

Yes, AFAIK, many packages need a command line hint like the above to tell
them not install into /usr/local/bin.

cgf