-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Ken Brown wrote: > Suppose I want to modify and rebuild a cygwin package that was created > using cygport. I may want to install it in /usr/local to avoid conflict > with the official version. One way to do this (I think) is to add > options like --prefix=/usr/local, --bindir=/usr/local/bin, etc., to the > call to cygconf. Is this the recommended method, or does cygport > provide a simpler way to do it?
cygport was made for creating distributable Cygwin packages, so it is set to use the /usr prefix. There is no easy way to override that. Yaakov Cygwin/X -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkkrKg8ACgkQpiWmPGlmQSNn+gCggmuMeMUW/yqXAD/cis+odUUu 910AoNo1cTDNIcDF33cYJhZ1ddfywXZ0 =QgY+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
