After looking over the post I did about compiling screen and brltty, I realize I made a large assumption I should not have made - but then when one makes assumptions, by default one isn't seeing other possibilities.
I do not usually compile in the home directory even on the Mac, which by default does not have a /usr/local/src, I create one and have all of my downloaded sources and git and svn downloads there as well. This probably is not best practice but was actually what people I learned from seemed to be doing when I was learning. Because of this assumption, I assumed that when the screen source was downloaded and when the git folder for brltty was done, the downloads would be moved somewhere outside the home directory (on the Mac they probably shouldn't just be worked on in Downloads) and git and svn would be run outside the home directory. For that reason I thought John would put his sources in /opt/local where he was placing brltty and screen. But obviously just because a program is going to be installed in that directory doesn't mean it needs to be moved there and compiled there; even when I install brltty with the defaults I still run from /usr/local not from the directory where brltty is going to end up installing. So I should not have made this assumption. Therefore I should perhaps have given instructions to unpack the source in the home directory or maybe to create a directory such as src in the home directory that would contain source and svn and git downloads. It is true that if this is done sudo is not needed until the make install stage is reached. So if somebody else wants to redo this, that is fine of course but otherwise when I have time, I will do so. Because I automatically always used /usr/local/src as my base for compiling and installing, I really had not thought through this issue. The one question I have is: Should I just instruct to unpack in the home directory or should I advise that a directory should be made within the home directory for compiling and managing svn, git and other source downloads? I actually think I may change my own practice now that I realize what my assumptions were. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Sep 4, 2017, at 11:19 AM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote: I primarily wrote this for one person. Dave and you and whomever wants to be involved may certainly edit it as they wish. Your point is understood. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Sep 4, 2017, at 10:47 AM, Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]> wrote: On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Actually this is not true in the Mac unless you do everything in your > home directory. This is if you are compiling. But probably the sudo > was not needed in the ls command. It is highly recommended that you compile things in a subdirectory of your home directory. The point is to do as much as possible without root privileges. Any issues, e.g. bugs with the Makefile than ends up deleting files from / would have less of an impact on your system that way. Of course on your own system you may do as you wish. But in a guideline document that inexperienced people will rely upon I think it is important to stick to best practices. Nicolas _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty
