Subject: Re: rpcbind Installation Directory
To: Riley Baird <riley@mailo.com>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
References: <20180127110945.18b6771d4a74e1438d4e0a05@mailo.com>
From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@RedHat.com>
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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 10:13:35 -0500
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On 01/26/2018 07:09 PM, Riley Baird wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was recently trying to install rpcbind from source, and I noticed
> that the default installation directory was /usr. This surprised me,
> since I always thought that software installed by a user should default
> to being installed in /usr/local.
Yes the default is /usr/bin.

> 
> Is there a reason that rpcbind is installed into /usr? If not, I can
> prepare a patch.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local should work.

steved.

> 
> Yours thankfully,
> 
> Riley Baird
> 
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