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Packaging questions?
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- To: posting-list at MailAndNews dot com (Jari Aalto+list.cygwin)
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:06:29 +0000
- Subject: Packaging questions?
- References: <it9kx2ae.fsf@blue.sea.net>
On Tuesday 29 Jan 02, Jari Aalto+list.cygwin writes:
>
> I have a quostion about the packaging page that says:
>
> The package is configured using (at a minimum) the following paths:
> --prefix=/usr
> --sysconfdir=/etc
> --libexecdir='$(sbindir)'
> --localstatedir=/var
> --datadir='$(prefix)/share'
>
> What are the values of $(sbindir) and $(prefix)? At least Berkeley
> DB does not accept these parameters straight:
>
> configure: error: expected an absolute path for --libexecdir:
I recall from building BerkeleyDB on UNIX (not Cygwin) that it did not
have complete autoconf support. My advice for BerkeleyDB is to simply
build it with --prefix=/usr and see where everything goes. I bet you
get lucky. (I had required distinct --prefix and --exec-prefix, and
BerkeleyDB could not accomodate that.)
You might check another package, but I suspect that $(sbindir) is
/usr/sbin. (Hmm, there is also stuff in my Cygwin /usr/libexec, were
those packages built incorrectly?)
Hope this helps.
David
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