Re: Linpac - Final hurdle?

From: Richard Adams (ovp.stleszkvx@intuit.com)
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 19:24:26 EEST

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    On Saturday 14 July 2001 09:50, Steve Fraser wrote:
    > Phil wrote:
    > > Linpac expects to find the axports file under /etc/ax25; on my system it
    >
    > is
    >
    > > under /usr/local/etc. How do I overcome this minor inconvenience?
    > >
    > > I really don't want to reinstall the ax25 utilities yet again.
    >
    > This is probably a left over from the 2.1.42a utils changed to the later
    > utils, which altered the default location. Programs which dont use the
    > API's to process ports etc can get caught by this change.
    >
    > The easiest solution I've found is to use a symbolic link in /etc/ax25,
    > like:
    > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 20 16:30 ax25ipd.conf ->
    > /usr/local/etc/ax25/ax25ipd.conf
    > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Apr 25 2000 axports ->
    > /usr/local/etc/ax25/axports

    Would it not be a good idea to have read the INSTALL files(s) in the ax25-
    apps lib and tools archives, that could have saved all these problems.

    Here is the small and relavant piece.

    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

    I quite often wonder why Terry Dawson choose to have the default in
    /usr/local as when Jonathan Naylor G4KLX who wrote all the ax25 stuff
    changed from /usr/local to /etc way back, anyway it is all documented.

    >
    > cheers
    > Steve
    > 

    -- 
Regards Richard.
terhi.victor@logonet.com
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