[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] [3.7 Release] RC1 has been tagged, Testing Phase I begins

[Hans Wennborg]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 21 July 2015 at 16:19, Dan Liew <dan at su-root.co.uk> wrote:
>> Having ``/usr/local/`` inside the tarball was intentional because it
>> makes it clear where the package is intended to be installed.
>
> This can't be right. LLVM doesn't release only on Linux.
>
> Also, add-on toolchains don't go to /usr/local, or they would
> overwrite the system one. If I want to untar, say, in /opt, I'd have a
> /opt/usr/local structure, which is confusing.
>
> Leave the specific position of the tar-ball to the system that is
> being distributed at.

The /usr/local prefix shouldn't be in the tarball after my commit in r242706.

Thanks,
Hans