From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: csmall@eye-net.com.au (Craig Small) Subject: Re: ax25ipd Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:19:09 +1000 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020829111909.GG13358@eye-net.com.au> References: <20020827223629.GC10758@silly.cloud.net.au> <200208271822.51734.w9ya@amsat.org> <0208280548330G.02211@unix.pa3gcu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0208280548330G.02211@unix.pa3gcu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: pa3gcu Cc: w9ya , Hamish Moffatt , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ MIEEE Debian developer