[Xastir] Mofit/Lib Paths

[Chuck Byam]

On Friday 29 August 2003 08:46, Aaron ZL3UAR wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Two background type questions from a newbie.
|
| I'm using Redhat 9. When I install xastir/shapelib/imagemagic they seem to
| put themselves into /usr/local/ instead of /usr/  especially /usr/local/lib
| instead of /usr/lib where it expects them.

First let me preface this by saying if you are a "newbie" then stick with 
rpm's as much as possible.  With the exception of shaplibs and AX25 libs 
these are readily available for RH systems.

|
| The ax25-howto shows that when you run ./configure for ax25-tools etc you
| can specify ./configure --exec_prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
| --localstatedir=/var
|
| Does/should xastir accept these params? Should I make symbolic links
| instead? Is one structure old/new better/worse?
|

It is general practice to install system related files in /usr and user 
installed software in /usr/local.  RH has historically installed any provided 
software in /usr/.  If you compile software from source you can pass the 
prefix to the configure routine (eg; --prefix=/usr).  If you run ./configure 
--help it will give you any available options for the configure process.  In 
short don't complicate things if you don't need to.

| Question Two relates to Motif.  The INSTALL file describes installing Motif
| or OpenMotif or LessTiff. What is the difference between them. Will any
| version make Xastir work faster or look better?
|

Motif is not GNU.  LessTif was started to provide a GNU implementation of 
Motif.  OpenMotif was spun off by the Open Group with the blessing of Motif 
and shares much of the same code only released under the "Open Group Public 
License", which is fairly liberal  Which should you use?   Motif has been the 
defacto standard in X development. Having said that OpenMotif would be the 
likely choice for most where restrictive licensing is not an issue.

--
Chuck