Re: gnome-lib and Solaris 7x86

["Ben Taylor" <sol7x86 hotmail com>]

Bitter?  <sigh> I do this for free.  I *HATE* /usr/local.
I work for Sun, and I can't tell you the number of times people
have shot themselves in the foot because they put all that stuff
in /usr/local.  /opt is for "optional" software.  I have /opt/local,
/opt/gnome, /opt/X11R6, and /opt/perl. One hell of a lot easier
to maintain than that stinking pot of /usr/local

> i personally am very bitter when a package doesnt spacify a choice for its
> install path.  when i make packages, they default install in /usr/local,
> but can be installed whereever you choose.  why more people dont do this i
> dont understand.  and if i have /etc/ stuff too, then ill either put it in
> /usr/local/etc or make a configuration files package too.

And go ahead and move /etc/dt to /usr/local/etc/dt and see how
dtlogin picks up things.

And since Gnome is such a huge hulking package, a choice of
where to put it means that you'd have to set a bunch of LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
directories, and I'd prefer to keep things
simple.  You're the first person to *complain* about how
I package the software.  Do me a favor and don't download
anymore of it.

> thats all..
> adam
>
>
>
> At 07:34 PM 12/7/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>
> > I have been trying to find if anyone has solved the problem of
> > gnome-lib configure failing due to the db 1.85 compatibility
> > problem.
> >
> > I downloaded, compiled and installed the latest version of Berkeley
> > db with the --185compat option and still cannot get configure
> > to complete.
> >
> > I know this is a known issue, but is anyone else working on it?
> >
> > I did find a Package for Solaris 7x86 but it was built on a Pentium
> > Pro Processor and installed Gnome in /opt and I was building
> > in /usr/local.  Call me lazy or stubborn but I don't want to
> > make clean the previously compiled packages and rebuild them
> > in /opt.
> >
> > Any suggestions or packages compiled in /usr/local would be greatly
> > appreciated...
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > A.J. Leitell
> >
> >
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