[GLUG-tech] Re: Debian standard file locations ? When compiling new aplications ..

[Johan H <jhg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 05 February 2004 14:42, Gregory Machin wrote:
> when compling a new aplication gcc ./configure allows you to use the
> following to configure the location of relavent files, what paths should i
> specify for debian so that i may keep with the standards ..
>
I am all for keeping to standards, makes for nice clean systems, but... dpkg 
manages the installation of packages on a debian system.  If you compile your 
app .. (./configure && make && make install) and you use the standards, your 
libs and binaries will end up in the same place as where dpkg would put them.  
Very dangerous.  You now have a mixture of dpkg maintained and user 
maintained files in the same directories and no real way of avoiding 
conflict.

If I have to compile and install on my debian boxes I put them in /usr/local/. 
You are guaranteed that dpkg will not mess with your files there.  

The first prize is to build a .deb from your package and use dpkg to install 
it.  Go look at  http://www.debian.org/devel/ The debian policy manual 
describes how to build packages to standard.  There is a link to the  
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html) 
which debian uses.  It will answer all your questions. 

Regards
Johan.
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