From: ss@uucp Subject: Re: Seyon 1.7 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:09:30 GMT
In article <1993Jan6.093737.21073@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
>I've just got Seyon-1.7 on my PC and when I installed it, I was
>surprised that the tar placed it in a directory branching off directly
>from the root! Isn't this highly unusual place to install software
>packages? Many of us actually reserved only a small partition for root
>and the last things I want to see is getting app packages in there! Is
>it OK to move that seyon directory under /usr, or somewhere else before
>I compile the whole thing?
>
Seyon, like almost all other source distributions, untars in ./seyon.
If you untar it in / it'll branch off you root directory, if you untar
it in /bin it'll brach off that, and so on for the rest. A reasonable
setup would be to untar all source distributions in /usr/src or
/usr/local/src.
>BTW, the minimal install instructions mention something about running a
>'Configure' first. That should generate the necessary config.h header
>file. What is this Configure? The only one I found was a script
>somewhere in the linux src directory, but that had nothing to do with
>Seyon. So this sounds Chinese to me right off the bat! ;-)
>
I didn't include Configure in 1.7. I deleted all references to it in
the docs, but the one in INSTALL evaded me. INSTALL does tell you to
edit config.h by hand in case of trouble though, so that's what you
should have done. Anyhow, users of linux, 386BSD, SVR4, and SVR3 need
not touch config.h at all, since it's already setup correctly for
their systems.
>Can anybody enlighten me about this?
>
>.... and I thought linux was "stingy" with documentation! ;-)
>
Hmmm, I think a manual of 700+ lines (formatted) and a FAQ of 750+
lines is rather on the ample side. There is not much I can do though
if people choose not to read them. As a matter of fact I haven't
updated the FAQ since 1.55 precisely because I got the impression that
few people read it (the manual page is always up-to-date though).
At any rate, Johann Miranda has taken over the task of maintaining the
FAQ and he intends to rewrite it, so expect a better and more accurate
FAQ in future versions.
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