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diff --git a/user/installation/index.rst b/user/installation/index.rst index 07ccc68..1851bd4 100644 --- a/user/installation/index.rst +++ b/user/installation/index.rst @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ repositories for the tools and kernel. .. toctree:: - prefixes-sandboxing releases developer kernel + project-sandboxing diff --git a/user/installation/prefixes-sandboxing.rst b/user/installation/project-sandboxing.rst index 0dd0589..2c5e508 100644 --- a/user/installation/prefixes-sandboxing.rst +++ b/user/installation/project-sandboxing.rst @@ -5,47 +5,6 @@ .. index:: Prefixes .. _prefixes: -Prefixes -======== - -You will see the term :ref:term:`prefix` referred to thoughout this -documentation and in a wide number of software packages you can download from -the internet. A **prefix** is the path on your computer a software package is -built and installed under. Packages that have a **prefix** will place all parts -under the **prefix** path. On a host computer like Linux the packages you -install from your distribution typically use a platform specific standard -**prefix**. For example on Linux it is :file:`/usr` and on FreeBSD it is -:file:`/usr/local`. - -We recommend you *DO NOT* use the standard **prefix** when installing the RTEMS -Tools. The standard **prefix** is the default **prefix** each package built by -the RSB contains. If you are building the tools when logged in as a *Standard -User* and not as the *Super User* (``root``) or *Administrator* the RTEMS -Source Builder (RSB) *will* fail and report an error if the default **prefix** -is not writable. We recommend you leave the standand **prefix** for the -packages your operating system installs or software you manually install such -as applications. - -A further reason not to use the standard **prefix** is to allow more than one -version of RTEMS to exist on your host machine at a time. The ``autoconf`` and -``automake`` tools required by RTEMS are not versioned and vary between the -various versions of RTEMS. If you use a single **prefix** such as the standard -**prefix** there is a chance parts from a package of different versions may -interact. This should not happen but it can. - -For POSIX or Unix hosts, the RTEMS Project uses :file:`/opt/rtems` as it's -standard **prefix**. We view this **prefix** as a production level path, and we -prefer to place development versions under a different **prefix** away from the -production versions. Under this top level **prefix** we place the various -versions we need for development. For example the version 4.11.0 **prefix** -would be :file:`/opt/rtems/4.11.0`. If an update called 4.11.1 is released the -**prefix** would be :file:`/opt/rtems/4.11.1`. These are recommendations and -the choice of what you use is entirely yours. You may decide to have a single -path for all RTEMS 4.11 releases of :file:`/opt/rtems/4.11`. - -For Windows a typical **prefix** is :file:`C:\\opt\\rtems` and as an MSYS2 path -this is :file:`/c/opt/rtems`. - .. _project-sandboxing: Project Sandboxing |