Re: [tkined] scotty2.1.9: installation script

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:38:59 +0200

>>>>> Vincent Qing Yin writes:

Vincent> I just installed scotty2.1.9 for Linux. The installation
Vincent> script has a few minor flaws.

It is sometimes difficult to decide between a flaw and a feature...

Vincent> The default path prefix is /usr instead of /usr/local as
Vincent> documented in the unix/README file. I think /usr/local is a
Vincent> better choice.

The configure script tries to "guess" the default. It first looks
whether you have already a scotty binary or a tclsh binary installed
and it uses that prefix if it finds something. This is a feature in
some places and in other places it might look like a bug. However, you
can easily use the --prefix option to overwrite this test.

Vincent> `make install' installs the file /usr/bin/scotty2.1.9 and
Vincent> tkined1.4.9, but doesn't make soft links like `ln -s
Vincent> scotty2.1.9 scotty'. So I had to make the soft link
Vincent> manually.

This is the way Tcl and Tk does it. And I think this is good.
Automatically creating these symbolic links can cause ambiguities if
you want to keep an old version or it might even affect running
programs. Such a symbolic link should be created explicitly by the
system administrator.
Juergen

Juergen Schoenwaelder schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/~schoenw
Technical University Braunschweig, Dept. Operating Systems & Computer Networks
Bueltenweg 74/75, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany. (Tel. +49 531 / 391 3289)

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