On Wednesday 26 April 2006 01:45 pm, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > First, that approach rarely produces anything useful.
Right, and herein lies one of the biggest obstacles for OpenSolaris. Currently there are thousands of packages that do produce useful software on platforms such as Linux or *BSD for that matter. It really is as easy as saying, "make install", and have no compilation errors, a clean binary produced. The OpenSolaris community should make an effort to modify the gnu tools used for much of that software (autoconf, automake, et al). No matter what the arguments are, or what environment is needed to be setup, this should be done in the configure.in and other configuration files so that it is as simple as "make install". Since much of the software uses /usr/local, that would only put OpenSolaris in better alignment, IMO. We'll probably disagree on this, and that's fine. > Finally, /usr/local is only a default. And by having a symlink in at least complies with that. Even much of the GNU configurations include changes for win32, and READMEs exist for those folks. Please at least consider some type of effort to create READMEs for those projects (at minimum), so that the average person can understand whey they can't just, "make install", and get usable results. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering
