Re: make install over the Debian package
> Is there any danger in overwriting the files of the Debian "hurd"
> package by doing "make install" in a Hurd build tree?
I do something like this (actually a cp -uaf over nfs from a directory
to which I did the make install on my cross-build machine).
> It installs executables and libraries with debug information; I
> consider that an advantage. It also installs profiling libraries
> which don't exist in the Debian package; those might cause
> problems later if I install a newer Debian package and they are
> left on the disk. Anything else?
There shouldn't be anything wrong with having extra libraries installed,
i.e. they don't interfere with anything. You just might want to remove
them later I suppose.
The hurd will install its /libexec/runsystem (the one that uses rc+runttys,
i.e. BSD style) when you do `make install' (it's in the daemons subdir).
If you are using debian's sysvinit then you will want to keep its
/libexec/runsystem instead. The debian packages for hurd and sysvinit both
handle this with the `update-alternatives' mechanism to avoid (or at least
formalize) clobbering each other.
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