On Thursday 17 June 2004 14:51, Alan McDonald wrote:

> (I love the way apache rpm's to one dir structure one minute and then a
> minor update later, they update to a completely different place. And
> yet again, if you build it yourself you get a third place. Hope FB
> doesn't go down this path.)

This is a) normal and b) yes, Firebird has gone down that path.

Official Firebird binaries are built to install into /opt/. If you build
it yourself it will install into /usr/local by default. This is
intentional. No way can you accidentally install your own build over a
pre-built kit.

I can't comment on your experience with Apache, but, immsc, they changed
the directly layout significantly from v1.3 to v2.0. And distributions
have traditionally changed the Apache directory layout to suit the needs
of the distro. So, going from, (say) RedHat to SuSE to building your own
Apache from official source will give the impression that the layouts
seem to change on an ad hoc basis. Even more so if you get confused as to
which version of Apache is installed.

I can't comment on your RH9 problems, but, imo, it was beta software so
what can you expect?


Paul
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