FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:55:46AM -0400, Brian Bruns wrote:
> I believe that beginning with 0.53 we no longer install the interfaces
> file by default (a point to mention in the UG maybe?), but instead only
> install the freetds.conf/locales.conf in $sysconfdir.  This works well for
> the /usr/local arrangement, since there is typically a /usr/local/etc but
> for /usr what may be wanted is something like

> ./configure --with-prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/freetds

> My personal opinion is that /usr is no place for third party software
> packages, so the /usr/local option is preferred.

This is also the opinion of the GNU coding standards (which autoconf
uses) and the FHS (which Linux uses), so there are other advantages to
using this as the default than just the personal preference of the
author. :)

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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