[LLVMdev] 1.9 Prerelease Available for Testing

Emil Mikulic emil at cs.rmit.edu.au
Sun Nov 19 15:50:57 PST 2006


On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 09:49:40AM -0800, Tanya M. Lattner wrote:
> > Convention is the foo-4.2.tar unpacks to a directory called foo-4.2.
> > It's a unwelcome surprise when it doesn't, e.g. unpacking
> > foo-4.1.tar and foo-4.2.tar in the same directory for comparision,
> > or worse unpacking foo-4.1.tar alongside your llvm work directory.
> 
> No its not. While this may be convention for other projects it has not
> been for llvm. Therefore, people expect llvm to untar into an llvm
> directory. All the docs are also written as such.

Sorry to harp on this topic some more, but it really is a quite common
packaging convention.

It's specified in the GNU Coding Standards at least:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Releases.html

All "ports" systems will have a way of working around "unconventional"
packages, so it doesn't _really_ matter.

--Emil (builds a lot of packages)



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