Mailing List Archive: binaries...

On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Andrew Wilson wrote:
> Brian,
>
> your notes on:
>
> http://www.hyperreal.com/httpd/binaries.html
>
> are misleading. Can you clarify them for us.
>
> You say for the tar files:
>
> apache_(version)-(platform)-(OSversion).tar.gz
>
> eg: apache_0.8.16-solaris-2.4.tar.gz
>
>
> but for the binaries:
>
> httpd-(version)
>
> eg: httpd-solaris
>
>
> Huh? Which (version) is which? What's the scoop?

Fixed. My apologies.

| httpd-(platform)
|
| as in, httpd-solaris

Why -platform? Many of us maintain multi-platform /usr/local/src (or
equivalent) trees, and being able to do this makes our life quite a bit
easier.

Brian

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