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  1. Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!owl.HQ.ILeaf.COM!karl
  3. From: karl@owl.HQ.ILeaf.COM
  4. Subject: $(sharebindir)?
  5. Message-ID: <9212311956.AA25563@owl.HQ.Ileaf.COM>
  6. Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
  7. Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
  8. Distribution: gnu
  9. Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:56:44 GMT
  10. Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
  11. Lines: 11
  12.  
  13. Perhaps it would be useful if Makefiles distinguished binary executables
  14. from sharable executables (i.e., shell scripts), by installing into
  15. $(bindir) and, say, $(sharebindir), respectively.
  16.  
  17. $(sharebindir) could be $(prefix)/bin by default, so that if $(prefix)
  18. and $(exec_prefix) are different, the sharable executables wind up in a
  19. (presumably) sharable directory.
  20.  
  21. Whatever the default, if the Makefiles used something like this, it
  22. would at least make it relatively painless to share what can be shared.
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