From: Craig Small (hax.trapfvub@sendrata.com)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 14:19:09 EEST
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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