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Re: [Nmh-workers] --prefix=/usr/local issues
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Bill Wohler |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] --prefix=/usr/local issues |
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Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:54:58 -0700 |
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Lyndon Nerenberg <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2013-03-18, at 7:36 PM, address@hidden 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.
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Bill Wohler <address@hidden> aka <address@hidden>
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.6, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] --prefix=/usr/local issues, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2013/03/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] --prefix=/usr/local issues, norm, 2013/03/21
- Re: [Nmh-workers] --prefix=/usr/local issues, Paul Fox, 2013/03/21
- Re: [Nmh-workers] --prefix=/usr/local issues, Ken Hornstein, 2013/03/21
- Re: [Nmh-workers] --prefix=/usr/local issues, Paul Fox, 2013/03/21
- Re: [Nmh-workers] --prefix=/usr/local issues, Valdis . Kletnieks, 2013/03/21
- Re: [Nmh-workers] --prefix=/usr/local issues, Ken Hornstein, 2013/03/22
- Re: [Nmh-workers] --prefix=/usr/local issues, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2013/03/21
Re: [Nmh-workers] --prefix=/usr/local issues,
Bill Wohler <=
Re: [Nmh-workers] configure --prefix problem with whatnow/post, belg4mit, 2013/03/18