Re: autoconf make install

Dave Page wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:Andreas(dot)Pflug(at)web(dot)de]
>>Sent: 13 May 2003 22:34
>>To: Dave Page; pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>Subject: Re: autoconf make install
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>>Dave Page wrote:
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>>>I think /usr/local/pgadmin3 is the right place.
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>>/usr/X11R6/bin should
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>>>be for components of X11R6 that came with the OS, whereas
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>>/usr/local/
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>>>is specifically for additional programs installed by the
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>>local admin.
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>>>If it ever gets popular enough to ship with 'pgLinux' for
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>>example :-)
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>>>then /usr/pgadmin3 would seem sensible.
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>>Should we really invent a new directory, requiring changes to
>>PATH? Why
>>not using /usr/local/bin? In this case, we shouldn't use
>>/usr/local/bin/ui/*, but something distinctive as
>>/usr/local/bin/pgadmin.ui/*.
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>Well technically the filesystem standard does say we should use
>/usr/local/bin. The gui components should probably be elsewhere
>(/usr/local/share springs to mind, but that *should* be architecture
>independent data which you could argue the xrc's are not).
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>As a sysadmin though, I prefer a program specific structure under
>/usr/local/xxx. It makes it so much easier to seperate out what files
>belongs to what package. Can make a mess of your path and ld.so.conf
>admittedly, but then I usually type full paths anyway. Some also
>consider adding /usr/local/bin/ to the path to be a bad idea though I
>never quite figured out why.
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>Thought or comments from anyone else?
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Well I'm not anyone else ;-) but I'd prefer to have the ui directory
structure located somewhere "known", preferably relative to the pgAdmin3
binary. At the moment, argv[0] is analyzed to locate the *.xrc files,
which makes copying quite easy because no environment variables are
needed (I learned to hate them...)

Regards,
Andreas