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Re: lynx-dev changing the installed lynx's directory layout
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Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev changing the installed lynx's directory layout |
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Tue, 4 May 1999 02:34:55 -0400 (EDT) |
990503 Vlad Harchev wrote:
> I propose to change the directory structure in which lynx installs.
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the current idea of `installation' goes back to the Age of Giants,
when Lynx was intended for multiple-user systems
& an administrator installed the necessary files
in fairly standard directories on UNIX or VMS.
today, many users compile their own, often for DOS or Windows,
& it would make much more sense to have a simple list in userdefs.h
inviting them to specify the exact paths they desire for each file;
there would be a default, if lynx-devers can agree on one.
i have had some difficulty in the past getting configure
to tell Lynx where to find the help files etc (it works now)
& always move the binary to ~/bin by hand
& leave the other files in the package where they originate.
it ought not to be such a mess for individual compilers.
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