From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) Subject: Re: Seyon 1.7 Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:42:00 GMT
probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
>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?
>>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! ;-)
>>Can anybody enlighten me about this?
>>.... and I thought linux was "stingy" with documentation! ;-)
>>Thanks,
>>Joe Pannon
>This may be a little new to you, but that is YOUR system, so you can put
>the packages where you want. Most packages out there shouldn't have
>paths hardcoded into them that are different from normal. Before installing
>something, you should do a
>tar -ztvf <tar-file> to see where its going.
Besides that, I don't think it was hardcoded - tar usually strips the leading
slash to make it relative
- you don't HAVE to untar to the directory, as was said above...
all it means is that it creates a seyon directory below the current directory
- it's best to untat somewhere else for source
(eg. make a /usr/src dir. and untar from there)
Happy tarring and Seyoning !
(I hope 1.7 works for me - it hasn't worked for me since about version 0.5...)
Cos !
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