Lyndon Nerenberg <[email protected]> writes: > On 2013-03-18, at 7:36 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> I configured and compiled with --prefix /usr/local >> and things worked fine. Unfortunately, the whatnow >> prompt reports the following when I try to send: >> unable to exec /usr/local/nmh/lib/post: No such file or directory > > Unrelated, but this reminds me of another nit I have with --prefix. > > Currently we install the etc stuff into ${prefix}/etc, which spams > /usr/local/etc pretty hard when faced with --prefix=/usr/local. > Personally, I'm not a fan of the /usr/local/nmh default prefix, and > would prefer to see it changed to /usr/local, with the configdir stuff > pushed down a level to $prefix/etc/nmh. (And libexec stuff in > $prefix/libexec/nmh, etc) I think most people expect things to install > this way, and just show up in their $PATH (which, presumably, already > has /usr/local/bin in place).
I don't like clutter in the /usr/local namespace. If nmh is installed in the main system, we might see /etc/nmh, /usr/bin/mh, and /usr/lib/mh, and it should be similar in /usr/local. However, /opt is not organized like /usr/local, so setting prefix to /opt might be an interesting alternative. -- Bill Wohler <[email protected]> aka <[email protected]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
