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 Message 347 
 andrew clarke to Ben Ritchey 
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 25 May 16 10:36:34 
 
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 ?

Evidently something created that directory on your Linux system, but it's not
used by anything.

In FreeBSD, /usr/local/bin is where most binaries are installed by the FreeBSD
package manager (pkg), versus /usr/bin, where some of the base system binaries
are installed.

(In FreeBSD 10.x and earlier the base system is effectively installed from
tarballs, but I understand they're moving to using pkg for the base system in
FreeBSD 11.x and later.)

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