last chance for installation target comments

[Russell Fulton]

On 23 Feb 2001 14:24:03 -0500 William Setzer <William_Setzer at ncsu.edu> 
wrote:

> "Carter Bullard" <carter at qosient.com> writes:
> : 
> :    We are installing everything in:
> :        /usr/local/argus
> :        /usr/local/sbin
> :        /usr/local/bin
> :        /usr/share/doc/argus-2.0
> :        /var/log/argus.out
> 
> I've mentioned before why I think all these different directories are
> a bad idea; I'm not going to belabor the point.  But since many people
> will want to shift the directory structure to their own liking, would
> you please put all of these in a 'pathnames.h' or support a '--prefix'
> configure option?

I thought that the discussion was just about prepackaged binaries (rpms 
and debs).  If you build from the tar then you can do what ever you 
like.  I assume configure supports --prefix.  Personally I don't bother 
with make install, I just move the binaries by hand.

For the argus perl scripts I am doing the install relative to 
$ARGUSHOME or $HOME, with bin and lib dirs under that.  I hope to have 
a second release on Monday (my time).  This will be mainly to test the 
unpacking and installation.  I'll spend some time working up the real
Argus::Archive.pm after that. 

Cheers, Russell.