Re: ax25ipd

[w9ya <w9ya@amsat.org>]

As far as I can tell, /usr/local has been "depreciated" into the "old-timers" 
pile. It is not a useful directory for this according to the FHS and LSB.

The source based distro I use (NOT Gentoo btw) places nothing into /usr/local, 
but rather issues the configure options suggested below OR edits source 
appropriately as the binary distros mentioned obviously do.

Bob
w9ya


On Monday 26 August 2002 08:53 pm, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Monday 26 August 2002 20:08, Andrew B. wrote:
> > Hello Bop,
> >
> > use -c option with ax25ipd command line  - point to
> > /etc/ax25/ax25ipd.conf directly...
> >
> > Hint: Search old linux-ham mailing list archive
> >
> >
> > Monday, August 26, 2002, 6:25:19 AM, you wrote:
> > NB> Hi
> > NB> I am trying to run the  ax25ipd and each time i do i get
> > NB> config not found or could not be open the config file is in
> > NB> /etc/ax25 dir  so wonder why it wont load any ideas!
> > NB> thanks
> > NB> Bob N1UAN
> >
> > Best regards,
> >  Andrew                            mailto:ua1cam@sma.spb.ru
>
> The search engine in the linux hams archive is broken and has been for a
> long time, i used www.google.com to find the following.
>
> From, http://www.febo.com/packet/linux-ax25/ax25-config.html
>
> There is one thing to watch out for with the new ax25 packages.
> If you install the ax25 stuff from Debian or RedHat packages, they will be
> installed in /usr/sbin with the config files in /etc/ax25. But... if you
> obtain the sources and build them yourself, the programs will be installed
> in /usr/local/sbin with the config files in /usr/local/etc/ax25. That can
> cause problems if the home-built programs need to read, for example, the
> axports file and are looking for it in /usr/local/etc/ax25 when it really
> lives in /etc/ax25.
>
> The workaround is simple, though it's not The Right Thing according to the
> filesystem standards: make /usr/local/etc/ax25 a symbolic link to
> /etc/ax25. That way, no matter which directory a program looks in for its
> configuration files, it will find the same ones.
> To do that, issue this command: ln -s /etc/ax25 /usr/local/etc/ax25
>
> Now that is a good workaround, however if one reads documentation before
> installing the ax25lib, apps and tools then one see's in the INSTALL file
> the following;
>
> To build it you type:
>         ./configure
>         make
>         make install
>
> By default, it will install the files in /usr/local.  To change this
> so that binaries go in  /usr and the conf files go in /etc
>         ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
>         make
>         make install
>
> It should have made more impression on, USE the ./configure option to get
> the things installed in the correct place. (If correct place is the right
> word). This is really a FAQ, it has been discussed many times, but it still
> has NOT been altered to get things defaulty installed where they really
> belong.
>
> Having said that, it has always been a disscussion about where the default
> directorys really should be.
> There seems to be some small descrepancy when a program looks into
> /etc/ax25 when it has been installed into /usr/local, but we are hams are
> we not...