Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Flightgear-users Digest, Vol 25, Issue 6
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. It also makes it possible to install everything as a NON-root user by giving the directory away prior to running install. Everything that fails to install MUST be illegal then (e.g. /etc or /lib ) ;-) The tree I see above is simply the result of something like : ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/FlightGear-0.9.8 --with-plib=/opt/plib \ --with-simgear=/opt/simgear .. and there is nothing wrong with that IMO. Bye, Kees Lemmens. ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Flightgear-users Digest, Vol 25, Issue 6
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 This is nothing like he described above. Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Flightgear-users Digest, Vol 25, Issue 6
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 ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
