On 30. 5. 2012, at 15:43, Filip Hajny wrote:
> On 30. 5. 2012, at 15:35, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
>
>>> Actually, binutils use GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX for the same purpose (the default
>>> prefix for all binaries). I can fix them - so that prefix-less symlinks are
>>> created
>>> under ${PREFIX}/gnu/bin too.
>>
>> Well, binutils uses different prefix: gnu-.
>> Obviously we can move tools to gnu/bin/ but I'm not sure about default
>> prefix in bin/.
>> "g" or "gnu-"?
>
> Doh. Somehow I have believed there has always been a default for
> GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX, and there's not… :)
>
> I wonder if there was any particular reason to set the default prefix to
> gnu-, or just personal preference.
>
Nevermind, found it:
http://gnats.netbsd.org/38106
Sounds it should be safe to change it to 'g' if only to make this predictable
in the context of all GNU tools.
-F