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2.2.3 Standard Directory Variables

The GNU Coding Standards also specify a hierarchy of variables to denote installation directories. Some of these are:

Directory variable

Default value

prefix

/usr/local

  exec_prefix

${prefix}

    bindir

${exec_prefix}/bin

    libdir

${exec_prefix}/lib

    …

  includedir

${prefix}/include

  datarootdir

${prefix}/share

    datadir

${datarootdir}

    mandir

${datarootdir}/man

    infodir

${datarootdir}/info

    docdir

${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}

  …

Each of these directories has a role which is often obvious from its name. In a package, any installable file will be installed in one of these directories. For instance in amhello-1.0, the program ‘hello’ is to be installed in bindir, the directory for binaries. The default value for this directory is ‘/usr/local/bin’, but the user can supply a different value when calling configure. Also the file ‘README’ will be installed into docdir, which defaults to ‘/usr/local/share/doc/amhello’.

A user who wishes to install a package on his own account could proceed as follows:

 
~/amhello-1.0 % ./configure --prefix ~/usr
…
~/amhello-1.0 % make
…
~/amhello-1.0 % make install

This would install ‘~/usr/bin/hello’ and ‘~/usr/share/doc/amhello/README’.

The list of all such directory options is shown by ./configure --help.


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