Thread: Installation Consensus

Before I release the latest version of the Autoconf code, I need to know
how to handle the automatically-generated installation target.  My
suggestion, and the way things are coded now, is to install things this
way ($package = "pgadmin3"):

pgadmin3 -> $(prefix)/bin
ui/commin/*.xrc -> $(datadir)/$(package)/ui/common
tips.txt -> $(datadir)/$(package)

By default, configure sets:

$(prefix) -> /usr/local
$(datadir) -> $(prefix)/share

This can be overriden by using "./configure
--prefix=/usr/local/pgadmin3" so then you get:

pgadmin3 -> /usr/local/pgadmin3/bin
ui/common/*.xrc -> /usr/local/pgadmin3/share/pgadmin3/ui/common
tips.txt -> /usr/local/pgadmin3/share/pgadmin3/

It seems to me that if we're going to use Autoconf, then it's best to
stay within the framework of the existing Autoconf installation
directory structure, so that "./configure" behaves the way a normal
autoconf user would expect (much like changing --with-libpq to
--with-pgsql).

What does everyone think?

ahp

It's rumoured that Adam H. Pendleton once said:
> This can be overriden by using "./configure
> --prefix=/usr/local/pgadmin3" so then you get:
>
> pgadmin3 -> /usr/local/pgadmin3/bin
> ui/common/*.xrc -> /usr/local/pgadmin3/share/pgadmin3/ui/common
> tips.txt -> /usr/local/pgadmin3/share/pgadmin3/
>
> It seems to me that if we're going to use Autoconf, then it's best to
> stay within the framework of the existing Autoconf installation
> directory structure, so that "./configure" behaves the way a normal
> autoconf user would expect (much like changing --with-libpq to
> --with-pgsql).
>
> What does everyone think?

I was discussing this with Andreas the other day. The fielsystem standard
clearly suggests using /usr/local/ as the installation prefix, however as
a sysadmin myself, I much prefer /usr/local/appname to keep apps
completely seperate from each other. In reality I think most software does
this. I'm iun the middle of building a new webswerver which has a large
number of PHP dependencies. Probably 90% of what I've installed so far
went into /usr/local/appname. The notable exception was the Informix
Client SDK which wanted /opt/informix!
Your layout under <install prefix> sounds fine.

Regards, Dave