I said "build root directory". It is relevant to installation insofar as a standard build setup simplifies writing installers.

According to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/), opt is for "add-on application software packages" and "The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally." The implication is that applications go in opt, and libraries and utilities go in local. Csound is both an application and a library, but ultimately it is an application, and the FSH shows lib and bin dirs in opt.  So for Linux Csound would seem to belong more in opt.

On BSD however there is no "opt" and, also, the opt dirs do not tend to be in search paths by default, but /usr/local usually is.  

OS X is like BSD, also.

So I think you are right, it should really go in /usr/local.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Istvan Varga 
Sent: Nov 19, 2005 4:03 PM
To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Multi port midi proposal

Michael Gogins wrote:

> I suggest the build root directory should be:
> 
> Unix/Linux - /usr/local/csound or ~/csound

How is that relevant to installation ? Also, who would want to
compile in /usr/local/csound (assuming that it is likely that
only the root user has write access to that directory) ?

> I suggest the installation root directory should be:
> 
> Unix/Linux - /usr/opt/csound

I would prefer /usr/local.


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