Hi,

On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:00, Erik Hofman wrote:
> Kees Lemmens wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 10:07, Erik Hofman wrote:
> > ...
> >
> >>>In my install, I have most of the files and directories (airport,
> >>>aircraft, etc) in
> >>>
> >>>/usr/local/FlightGear-0.9.8/share/FlightGear
> >>>
> >>>so I thought it is the fg-root; in fact, in this directory, there is
> >>>also that version file that contains the version number of
> >>>flightgear,
> >>
> >>Oh man, this really sounds like a mess.
> >>The normal behaviour is:
> >>
> >>main program:    /usr/local/bin/fgfs
> >>data directory:  /usr/local/shared/FlightGear/data
> >
> > I do not agree with Eriks remark that "this sounds like a mess" : it
> > is a commonly used method to ensure that EVERYTHING that belongs to a
> > certain packet ends up in the same tree without cluttering anything
> > else and can thus be easily removed without having to rely on an
> > UN-install script.
>
> That's why we have a data directory, the tree would like something like
> this then:
>
> /opt/FlightGear
> /opt/FlightGear/bin
> /opt/FlightGear/sbin
> /opt/FlightGear/data
> /opt/FlightGear/include
>

If you run with --prefix=/opt/FlightGear WITHOUT specifying anything else 
you'll end up exactly with what is described by the first writer and not 
with what you show above. 

Bye,
Kees

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