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Re: nits to please a kernel hacker
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:07:34PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>
> That's an error message quality issue, and point taken.
>
The reason why I keep pushing the perl filtering scheme is that it
might expand the number of people who can help out with error message
qualty. Not everyone is comfortable hacking C++.... (or wants to
have anything to do with it). So you might have more people being
able to help out with that particular usabiity issue if it is
imeplemeted in a more approachable language. Just a thought.
> > Yes, some people might be annoyed about needing to install it in
> > /usr/local. [...]
>
> /usr/local is simply the FSF-mandated autoconf default. Just like any
> other such tool, one can and generally should designate an arbitrary
> installation directory with --prefix=DIR.
I suspect most users will probably install it in either /usr/local or
/usr/bin, and hence either not specify --prefix, or use --prefix=/usr,
since otherwise they would need to set up extra directories to put in
their PATH.
Doing something like --prefix=/opt/systemtap is more convenient from
the point of view of uninstalling a package, but most people I know
don't bother to do that.
- Ted