Melchior FRANZ wrote:
* Pat Grondin -- Monday 11 April 2005 18:32:
Thanks Melchior,
I run the program out at school (don't have Linux at home here), I'll let
you know how it turned out. I'm sure it will work.
Heh, don't thank *me*. I didn't help. I just corrected a small mistake. :-)
But why not --prefix=/usr/local/FlightGear/? Because the prefix is the base installation address. That would mean that libraries would be installed in /usr/local/FlightGear/lib/, executables in /usr/local/FlightGear/bin/, manpages in /usr/local/FlightGear/man etc. You'd have to add all these paths to LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or /etc/ld-so.conf), PATH, MANPATH, etc. which is a lot of extra work for no good reason.
Using --prefix=/usr/local/FlightGear is nice if you want to put all of FlightGear into it's own little sandbox. But like you say, you have to update manpath, path, ld_library_path, etc. The advantage is that you don't have a lot of applications mixing their libs and binaries and data into one tree (at the expense of some extra work.)
On linux machines, most everything is pre-packaged so I usually don't worry about it myself and slap everything I build myself into /usr/local which usually isn't that much. If you are on an sgi or sun, you might end up building a *lot* of extra software from source which might make speparate paths more attractive.
Curt.
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