Initial Path - Question...

[Steve Iribarne (GMail)]

I'm not really sure I understand 100% of the issue here.


On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Michael D. Setzer II
<mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
> I have the g4l project that uses busybox plus a number of other programs.
> A number of the additional programs I was building and installing manually into directories in
> the path.

Into what path?



>As it turns out, some of the programs make install puts the files in the /usr/local/bin
> or /usr/local/sbin.
>
> I then wrote a little script that will compare the files in my build directory, to the systems to
> see if the files have been updated, and show what is different. I then moved the files from
> there old locations to the new /usr/local directories. I had found a web page saying the
> /usr/local directories are part of the standard path. But a test of the new build fail, and
> checking the path showed the /usr/local were not part of the path with the boot.
>

When you do a "make install" you should do something like "make
DESTDIR=<path-root-of-install> install".  That's if I understand what
you wrote above.  I do this for many applications that I build and put
into my ramdisk.


> I added an export to command to the .bash_profile to fix the issue, but was wondering if there
> is a better way, or if this is how things are suppose to be. Not sure where the PATH value is
> set.
>

Yeah.. this is where I'm tossed off.  Adding an export command for
what?  Anyway.. I hope my little bit of info above helped.

-stv


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