[rox-users] Re: ROX+Gnome2

[Daniel P. <da...@ri...>]

On 30 Aug 2002, Jesse Raleigh wrote:
> That's good to know. The non-standard directory structure in mandrake
> is pissing me off. I compiled and installed autoconf 2.53 from source,
> but my system didn't see it. Then I found that mandrake just stuck an
> autoconf binary in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/autoconf/ where the
> newly compiled version was. So much for ./configure eh?

That's actually going to be a pretty standard experience for you with
any distribution, with the possible exception of Gentoo Linux; I don't
know that they pass different arguments to configure.

Mostly, the distributions put configuration in /etc and the rest under
/usr, while configure defaults to everything it /usr/local, including
configuration.

Don't expect Debian to do any better with this. :)

      Daniel

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