Question about /usr/local/bin in Mavericks ...

I just did a clean install of Mavericks on a 2010 MacPro. I understand Mavericks does not replicate this path (/usr/local/bin) when doing a clean install. Prior to this I was running 10.7.xx and I had a few compiled binaries installed in the bin folder. How do I address this? Can I simply recreate the path manually without risk?
Thanks.
-paul.

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Re: Question about /usr/local/bin in Mavericks ...
Jan 15, 2014 9:30 AM (in response to Paul Figgiani)
So why would you expect /usr/local/bin to be there? If you install custom, low-level software like this on one system, it will not get migrated to the new system.
As I stated in my original post I did not expect it to be there. All I'm asking is how do I adreess the issue? Do I recreate it manually without any risk of screwing something up?

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