On 3 Nov 2008 at 8:31, Steve Iribarne (GMail) wrote: Date sent: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 08:31:39 -0800 From: "Steve Iribarne (GMail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael D. Setzer II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Initial Path - Question... Copies to: [email protected]
> I'm not really sure I understand 100% of the issue here. > Busybox is the init process on the cd, so it sets the initial path for the system. As another message pointed out, this is defined in messages.c, and has a fixed value. > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Michael D. Setzer II > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have the g4l project that uses busybox plus a number of other programs. > > A number of the additional programs I was building and installing manually > > into directories in > > the path. > > Into what path? > > > > >As it turns out, some of the programs make install puts the files in the > >/usr/local/bin > > or /usr/local/sbin. > > > > I then wrote a little script that will compare the files in my build > > directory, to the systems to > > see if the files have been updated, and show what is different. I then > > moved the files from > > there old locations to the new /usr/local directories. I had found a web > > page saying the > > /usr/local directories are part of the standard path. But a test of the new > > build fail, and > > checking the path showed the /usr/local were not part of the path with the > > boot. > > > > When you do a "make install" you should do something like "make > DESTDIR=<path-root-of-install> install". That's if I understand what > you wrote above. I do this for many applications that I build and put > into my ramdisk. > > > > I added an export to command to the .bash_profile to fix the issue, but was > > wondering if there > > is a better way, or if this is how things are suppose to be. Not sure where > > the PATH value is > > set. > > > > Yeah.. this is where I'm tossed off. Adding an export command for > what? Anyway.. I hope my little bit of info above helped. > > -stv > > > -- > /* > * Steve Iribarne > * Software Engineer > * (aka Grunt) > */ +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) [EMAIL PROTECTED] CREDITS SETI 6,734,950.2088 | EINSTEIN 2,081,957.9009 | ROSETTA 668,226.5637 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
