-=> andrew clarke wrote to Ben Ritchey <=-   
      
    ac> 24 May 16 14:49, you wrote to me:   
      
    ac>>> BINDIR="/usr/local/bin"   
    ac>> On Linux you'll probably need to change this to /usr/bin.   
      
    BR> I have /usr/local/bin but it's empty ?   
      
    ac> Evidently something created that directory on your Linux system, but   
    ac> it's not used by anything.   
      
   On a normal Linux distribution, /usr/local/bin is created, but reserved for   
   stuff that you've compiled from source.  Packages with user binaries get   
   installed into /usr/bin instead.  So my /usr/local/bin directory tends to get a   
   mixture of shell scripts that I wrote and binaries from sooftware for which   
   there was no suitable .deb available.   
      
    ac> In FreeBSD, /usr/local/bin is where most binaries are installed by the   
    ac> FreeBSD package manager (pkg), versus /usr/bin, where some of the base   
    ac> system binaries are installed.   
      
   Different in Linux base system binaries end up in /bin, binaries from packages   
   in /usr/sbin and non package binaries (i.e. compiled from source without a   
   package) in /usr/local/bin .   
      
    ac> (In FreeBSD 10.x and earlier the base system is effectively installed   
    ac> from tarballs, but I understand they're moving to using pkg for the   
    ac> base system in FreeBSD 11.x and later.)   
      
   I haven't touched any of the *BSD OSs for many years. :)   
      
      
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