On 01/07/2013 08:28 AM, Richard Coffee wrote: > > I couldn't access the archives, so I thought I would go ahead and ask. Why > did the iptables bindir get changed from /sbin to /usr/bin? It sure seemed > to add quite a bit to the install step. >
It installs only iptables-xml into bindir. That's one executable that really should go to it's right place - and that's /usr/bin when using --prefix=/usr I didn't want to put it into /bin, it is not required at boot, and not into /usr/sbin nor /sbin since it can be run as normal user and is only used to dump xml formated output of iptables rules (I guess so). > Also, I didn't need the LDFLAGS doing an upgrade. I suspect that was just > because the libraries already existed. Although I did need to use a sed > before doing 'make install'. > Right, same for me. I've built it without any problems since I've had ip6tc library available on system. It was reported few hours later that build fails. > sed -i 's/-dm0755/-d -m0755/' iptables/Makefile && > > Looks like just a typo in the file. I wouldn't have caught it but one of my > machines uses Benkmann's package user management. > > Doesn't look wrong to me. I guess here comes "your distro, your rules." You are free to do what you want for your system. > richard > > ____________________________________________________________ > GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at > http://www.inbox.com/smileys > Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and > most webmails > > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
