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Autotools

by John Calcote
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
No Starch Press
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The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

You may be wondering by now where I'm getting these directory names. What if some Unix system out there doesn't use /usr or /usr/local? For one thing, this is another reason for providing the prefix variable—to allow the user some choice in these matters. However, most Unix-like systems nowadays follow the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard as closely as possible. The FHS defines a number of standard places including the following root-level directories:

/bin

/etc

/home

/opt

/sbin

/srv

/tmp

/usr

/var

This list is by no means exhaustive. I've only mentioned the directories that are most relevant to our study of open source project build systems. In addition, the FHS defines several standard locations beneath these root-level ...

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