On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Peter Clifton<pc...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 15:46 -0400, Ethan Swint wrote:
>> OK - everything got installed to /root, instead of /usr/local...  How
>>    to change that in the build process?  I'm looking...
>
> There is a define in the top level "Makefile". It defaults to prefixing
> in $HOME/geda/...
>
> so if you ran the build as root (unnecessary really), it will default
> to /root/geda/...
>

Why don't we default to /usr/local like every other Unix program?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment

Regards
Mark
markra...@gmail
-- 
Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
markra...@midwesttelecine.com


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