On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 23:30 -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > Personally I think default should be /usr/local/dbmail and *EVERYTHING* > should default under that. I don't like programs (especially hand > compiled one) spraying files all over my file system. I find it much > neater when they are all contained under one directory.
Hmm, yeah, but there's also the -f and -p command line options. 'make install' doesn't do anything with the dbmail.conf file or create any directories under /var -- but there is a new hardcoded path for the stdout/stderr files /var/log/dbmail.log/err. That needs configurability. > Plus this allows a user to compile and test the program without root > access, and makes it easy to have multiple installs on the same system > for testing purposes. > > Now I understand that may not be a popular view, so I would be satisfied > with the additional configure flags you suggest below. As long as there > is a fairly standard way of getting everything in one place without > having to edit .h files, I'm happy. I'm a little busy at the end of this week, but will definitely put this on my todo-list for next week. Aaron
