On 3/8/21 8:03 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote:
On Mon, 2021-03-08 at 19:49 +0800, Kevin Buckley via blfs-dev wrote:
2)
Installation of intel-vaapi-driver
appears to unpack the intel-vaapi-driver sources into the libva
directory.
Does it need to be installed from within the libva source directory?
I'd have thought one would have cd-d back up out of the libva dir?
Well, I'm responsible for this... It does not hurt, and it allows to
have only one directory to remove instead of two after building...
It's this way for all the pages with two packages on them (see sassc
for example)(I hate those pages, they just show our laziness).
I do not think it is laziness. Some apps just package their code into
two packages and it doesn't really make sense to install one and not the
other. Combining those apps into one page is the logical thing to do to
make things easier for the user.
3)
I also noted that many of the X Window System package instructions
(although I think it's a BLFS wide thing) follow this form :
Installation of package
Install <application>package</application> by running the following
commands:
./configure $XORG_CONFIG &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
I'd like to suggest that the "Install" sentence there should be
replaced by
"Build <application>package</application> by running ..."
as that's what the combined configure+make commands actually do
and that the "Now, as the root user:" becomes
"As the root user, install the package as follows:"
as that is what the commands to be done as the root user do.
Well, I'm not a native English speaker, so I might be wrong, but I
understand the first sentence is for all what follows, including the
"Now, as the root user" part.
that is correct.
-- Bruce
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