On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:16:58 +0100, you wrote:
jpennington@atipa.com said:
A well-made source tarball will install its files to /usr/local/. If it's going somewhere else, contact the maintainer and notify him/her that they're violating your disk ;).
I hope not. /usr/local is an absolute path. A good tarball will unpack into your current directory.
I think we are talking about two different things. A tarball will "unpack" into the current directory. However, a 'make install' will usually then install the files into /usr/local (actually I have found they usually go to /usr/local/bin). Stuart -- Stuart Hall Cheshire, Connecticut, USA Linux User# 141732 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/