[Asterisk-Dev] Install destination on Solaris

[Stephen Uhler]

>>>Simon Lockhart said:
> All,
> 
> I'm just testing out asterisk-1.2.0 on Solaris, and apart from finding a 
> couple of Makefile compatibility issues (oops, should have does this before
> 1.2.0 was released, but assumed other Solaris people would have looked at it -
> patch being submitted to bugtracker shortly), I've noticed that someone has
> snuck in a change to the install destination for Solaris, which I'm not in
> favour of, so I'm asking here for some ideas for the best way to fix this.
> 
> On linux (and all other platforms except Solaris), asterisk ends up in:
> 
> 	/etc/asterisk/
> 	/usr/lib/asterisk
> 	/var/lib/asterisk
> 	/var/spool/asterisk
> 	/usr/sbin
> 	[etc]
> 
> On Solaris (now), it ends up in:
> 
> 	/opt/asterisk/...
> 	/var/opt/asterisk/
> 	/etc/opt/asterisk/
> ...
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Simon

These are the "official" locations on Solaris, for a package named "asterisk".
This has been the standard (on Solaris) for at least a decade.  I believe
that Asterisk should comply with platform conventions where practical, and
this is one of those times.

Stephen Uhler
Sun Microsystems