[haiku-development] Re: manual for directory layout in Haiku

  • From: Tim Kelly <gtkelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:37:45 -0400

François Revol wrote:

On 13/03/2016 16:26, Adrien Destugues wrote:
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 11:11:36AM -0400, Tim Kelly wrote:
This looks like what I was looking for - thank you.  I do see a lot of stuff
dumped into /bin and a couple other places.  Is /system/non-packaged the
preferred repository?
What you see in / is only symlinks to /system, and most of it is not
writable (it is a virtual filesystem made from packages data).

The non-packaged dir is writable, so I recommend using this for testing.
Then, you can see about making a package if you want.

Actually, when I start porting something I often first try with:

--prefix=/boot/testing-foobar

To see what gets installed where, as many software lack an uninstall target.
But of course then I change the prefix as this one obviously doesn't get
added to PATH and other things :D


Good tip - I figure I'll get ./configure wrong the first few times, so I'd prefer not to clean up otherwise clean directories.

tim

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