[Asterisk-Dev] Install destination on Solaris

[tim panton]

On 17 Nov 2005, at 17:25, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> Simon Lockhart wrote:
>
>> Yes. There's the Sun way, and then the way that everyone else does  
>> it. If you
>> take a look at sunfreeware.com, you'll find that everything  
>> installs into
>> /usr/local because that's where everyone who wasn't indoctrinated  
>> into the Sun
>> way of doing things places stuff.
>
> Understandable... I don't know of any good solution to this problem  
> then. If enough Solaris users get together and decide the default  
> install paths should be different, then we can change it, but I'd  
> like to see a reasonable consensus on the topic before I tell the  
> Sun people that we are disregarding their suggestion :-)

The history here is that in classic Solaris /usr can be mounted read  
only by a roomful of diskless devices.
This means that you didn't put _anything_ in /usr that hadn't come  
off the OS disk.

Since no-one has bought a diskless Sun for 10 years, I guess it is  
probably not an issue these days,
but it will still be in the official rule book :-) .

Tim.