[hipl-dev] Re: [Bug 693834] Re: maintain configuration files as separate files
- From: Diego Biurrun <diego@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Stefan Götz <693834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:23:11 +0100
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 01:59:28PM +0000, Stefan Götz wrote:
> I'm skeptical of this 'running from source' business. From my
> experience, many tools built with the GNU tool chain do require a 'make
> install' invocation for precisely the reasons discussed here.
+1
Please don't extrapolate from your own experience to common practice.
Just think of the /usr/local/etc issue. This is the standard path for
self-compiled software on Unix. You were only accustomed to something
due to years of broken defaults in HIPL.
Diego
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