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- Subject: Re: Seyon 1.7
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.010930.1477@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan6.093737.21073@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:09:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.093737.21073@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
- >I've just got Seyon-1.7 on my PC and when I installed it, I was
- >surprised that the tar placed it in a directory branching off directly
- >from the root! Isn't this highly unusual place to install software
- >packages? Many of us actually reserved only a small partition for root
- >and the last things I want to see is getting app packages in there! Is
- >it OK to move that seyon directory under /usr, or somewhere else before
- >I compile the whole thing?
- >
-
- Seyon, like almost all other source distributions, untars in ./seyon.
- If you untar it in / it'll branch off you root directory, if you untar
- it in /bin it'll brach off that, and so on for the rest. A reasonable
- setup would be to untar all source distributions in /usr/src or
- /usr/local/src.
-
- >BTW, the minimal install instructions mention something about running a
- >'Configure' first. That should generate the necessary config.h header
- >file. What is this Configure? The only one I found was a script
- >somewhere in the linux src directory, but that had nothing to do with
- >Seyon. So this sounds Chinese to me right off the bat! ;-)
- >
-
- I didn't include Configure in 1.7. I deleted all references to it in
- the docs, but the one in INSTALL evaded me. INSTALL does tell you to
- edit config.h by hand in case of trouble though, so that's what you
- should have done. Anyhow, users of linux, 386BSD, SVR4, and SVR3 need
- not touch config.h at all, since it's already setup correctly for
- their systems.
-
- >Can anybody enlighten me about this?
- >
- >.... and I thought linux was "stingy" with documentation! ;-)
- >
-
- Hmmm, I think a manual of 700+ lines (formatted) and a FAQ of 750+
- lines is rather on the ample side. There is not much I can do though
- if people choose not to read them. As a matter of fact I haven't
- updated the FAQ since 1.55 precisely because I got the impression that
- few people read it (the manual page is always up-to-date though).
-
- At any rate, Johann Miranda has taken over the task of maintaining the
- FAQ and he intends to rewrite it, so expect a better and more accurate
- FAQ in future versions.
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