Re: Distributing extensions to STk

From: Brian Webb <webbb_at_lx3.tucson.saic.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 08:53:24 +0700

> 3. The stk binary, stk-bin, is put in the same directory regardless of
> what type of CPU it was compiled for, *and* its path is hard coded
> into the launcher shell file.
>
> I would recommend installing the libraries and stk-bin executable in
> a subdirectory of /usr/local/lib, using uname to construct a name
> which is machine dependent, e.g.
>
> libdir=/usr/local/lib/`uname -m`-`uname -s`

The configure utility support putting machine specific files into
a non-shared directory using the --exec-prefix path.

If you have a shared /usr/local directory, use the option
--exec-prefix `uname -m`-`uname -s` when you configure.
Received on Mon Nov 14 1994 - 16:52:46 CET