On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 01:13:34 Jonathan Lim wrote:
> > bzip2 is not widely available on IRIX machines, so I don't think this
> > should be the default action. Maybe an option ...
>
> Agreed.
Do I cut the patch or do it yourself ? (I understand it is too Mandrake
specific)
>
> > > - location of files. In linux there should not be any /usr/demos. All goes
> in
> > > /usr/share. Specific changes are:
> >
> > Isn't this somewhat of a religious issue ? Some like it in /usr/man others
> > like it in /usr/share/man ... It almost seems better if $(IVROOT) would
> > specify everything up until /man. That way you could set it to '/usr' or
> > '/usr/share' according to taste, but maybe that will break other things.
>
> My thoughts exactly. Besides, some of the viewers and demos have hardcoded the
> paths to the help files.
>
But that should be changed. If you port a package, you have to make the
package behave like a Linux package, not perturb the standard linux file
system to make it look like an SGI.
If not, you can end like Microsoft puttin DLLs inside an SGI to run XSI.
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mailto:jamagallon@xxxxxxx #> more beer
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