[Olsr-dev] change default install location to /usr/local

[Teco Boot]

I had some time to check this.
Almost all tools I install are located in /usr/, not /usr/local/
I use /usr/local/ for stuff I put there myself.
So a mature piece of software like olsrd deserves to be stored in /usr/.

What we should do is deliver complete install packages, to be used by many.

How can we get olsrd 0.6.3 in Debian? Backport to Squeeze?
Roland?

My 2ct.
Teco


Op 31 mei 2012, om 21:57 heeft Hans-Christoph Steiner het volgende geschreven:

> 
> On May 31, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Ferry Huberts wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 31-05-12 20:02, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> 
>>> I would like to include this patch to change the default Linux install location to /usr/local, which is the generally accepted UNIX standard for user-installed programs.  Currently, it installs into /usr, which is set aside for system-installed programs (apt-get, yum, etc.  This patch also includes the standard Makefile variables $DESTDIR, $prefix, and $libdir, for standardized overriding of those locations (i.e. make prefix=/usr).
>>> 
>>> Any objections?
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm not too thrilled about this so close to a new release, can we please postpone it until after 0.6.3?
> 
> IMHO, this is not a feature, this is a bug fix.  The vast majority of free software uses /usr/local as the default install location, this is the default behavior of build systems like autotools and ./configure, cmake, etc.  /usr/local is also widely documented as the place for user-installed software (i.e. outside of the system's packages and updates):
> 
> http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/introduction/position.html
> 
> .hc
> 
>>> diff --git a/make/Makefile.linux b/make/Makefile.linux
>>> index e73be7c..02fb99f 100644
>>> --- a/make/Makefile.linux
>>> +++ b/make/Makefile.linux
>>> @@ -3,8 +3,12 @@
>>> #
>>> 
>>> ARCH := $(shell uname -m)
>>> +
>>> DESTDIR ?=
>>> -LIBDIR =       $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib
>>> +prefix ?= /usr/local
>>> +libdir ?= $(prefix)/lib
>>> +
>>> +LIBDIR =       $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)
>>> 
>>> SRCS +=        $(wildcard src/linux/*.c src/unix/*.c)
>>> HDRS +=                $(wildcard src/linux/*.h src/unix/*.h)
>> 
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>> Ferry Huberts
> 
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