On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 21:34, Daniel Fone wrote: > Hi guys, > > Thanks for all the helpful advice. In the end I decided to put the binary in > /usr/local/bin/ and the data in /var/quote/. > > Now all I have to do is figure out how to package it with scripts to do the > mkdirs etc and I'll have gone through the process of making an linux app from > start to finish. I think some of you have pointed me in the right direction > with that.
It would be nice so that "make && make install" would do it all, or else for small programs that include a precompiled version in the distro you can simply run an install.sh script, which will install the precompiled data, and make will replace that precompiled one with a custom one. As a side note, coding for the sake of coding is great. And reinventing the wheel can help, as it gives you something to easily compare your efforts against. Sascha
