Re: ax25ipd

[csmall@eye-net.com.au (Craig Small)]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 05:48:33AM +0000, pa3gcu wrote:
> Looks like i started this thread, what i mean was, why do the ax25lib/apps/ 
> and tools default to /usr/local and place binarys in /usr/local when some 
> programs will "still" look in /etc/ax25 for thier config files instead of 
> /usr/local/etc thats what i mean, seems like a funny way of doing things to 
> me.
Because people build the programs inconsistently.  More specifically
they build the libraries with one set of options and the binaries with
another.

> Yes the program concernd has the -C option, yes there is the 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
> But folks dont read documentation do they and we constanly see this question 
> poping up here on this list simply because one did not read the docs 
> beforehand.
Well, the must be reading it once then forgetting it.  If they do the
same thing then there is no problem.

The ax25 stuff uses standard auto* tools folks, its pretty common out
there and probably the most common sort of build set.

People don't read documentation, I get plenty of emails that are FAQs;
not just in ax25 stuff.

Part of the problem has been dumb error messages that don't say where
they are looking.  I believe that is being fixed now.

  - Craig
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