[Openchrome-users] current build instructions

[Xavier Bachelot]

Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently the wiki 
> (http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Compiling+the+source+code)
> advises to build the via_drv module like this:
> 
>   mkdir openchrome
>   cd openchrome
>   svn co http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/trunk
>   cd trunk
>   ./autogen.sh
>   make
>   make install
> 
> When doing it like this, I have to move the resulting via_drv.so 
> from /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ 
> to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ afterwards.
> Shouldn't the instructions contain a './configure --prefix=/usr'?
> 
Few comments :
- the --prefix= is distro dependant, though I think it's better this days.
- "hardcoding" it to /usr will possibly have Joe User silently stepping 
over toes of his packages manager.

I agree the doc as-is will often lead the average user to a non-working 
install, but I'd rather have a carefully written note around that than 
just the --prefix=/usr added.

Regards,
Xavier