Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:06:29 +0000 Message-ID: <5052-Tue29Jan2002230629+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 7.00 under 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" XEmacs Lucid From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: posting-list@MailAndNews.com (Jari Aalto+list.cygwin) Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Packaging questions? In-Reply-To: References: 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/