FS layout issues for v1.1 (eg., /bin and /usr/bin)

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Wed Mar 1 11:03:00 GMT 2000


On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:12:10AM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>[1] The Cygwin tree is designed to use the prefix/exec-prefix all the
>way, and to have separate /bin, /usr/bin, /lib, /usr/lib, we need to
>make certain packages use `prefix=/' (bash, parts of winsup) and 
>others `prefix=/usr' (just about everything else), and it's simply
>a maintainence headache for what I see minimal benefit.

Ditto.

cgf


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