On Thursday 18 June 2009 20:53:59 Mark Rages wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Peter Clifton<pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 15:46 -0400, Ethan Swint wrote:
> >> OK - everything got installed to /root, instead of /usr/local... How
> >> to change that in the build process? I'm looking...
> >
> > There is a define in the top level "Makefile". It defaults to prefixing
> > in $HOME/geda/...
> >
> > so if you ran the build as root (unnecessary really), it will default
> > to /root/geda/...
>
> Why don't we default to /usr/local like every other Unix program?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment
If all goes as planned, we will soon.
Peter
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Peter Brett
Cambridge University Engineering Department
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