X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=943a8a467a32790118d46042c1b28b260b96074e;hp=02ad55fe471139bb342d0687f86f170664e56a80;hb=e3c14a7ff3931e4c09711966e3a82fd8f98e568a;hpb=22e8ccdc02c7bf2e487f5422a7a41bbe6e26962b;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 02ad55fe4..943a8a467 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -8,29 +8,6 @@ Usual options for udev installed in the root filesystem are: --libexecdir=/lib/udev \ --with-selinux -All options: - --prefix= - Usually /usr, prefix for man pages, include files. - --sysconfdir= - Usually /etc. - --sbindir= - Usually /sbin, the place for udevd and udevadm. - --libexecdir= - Usually /lib/udev, the udev private directory. - --enable-debug - Compile-in verbose debug messages. Usually not needed, - it increases the size of the binaries. - --disable-logging - Disable all logging and compile-out all log strings. This - is not recommended, as it makes it almost impossible to debug - udev in the running system. - --with-selinux - Link against SELinux libraries to set the expected context - for created files. - --disable-extras - Disable the build of all extras which have larger external - dependencies like glib, libacl, libusb, ... - The options used in a RPM spec file usually look like: %configure \ --prefix=%{_prefix} \ @@ -47,13 +24,12 @@ other location will break other packages, who rightfully expect the /lib/udev/ directory, to install their rule helper and udev rule files. -It is recommended to use the /lib/udev/devices/ directory to place +It is possible to use the /lib/udev/devices/ directory to place device nodes, directories and symlinks, which are copied to /dev/ at every bootup. That way, nodes for devices which can not be detected automatically, or are activated on-demand by opening the pre-existing device node, will be available. -Default udev rules and persistent device naming rules are required +Default udev rules and persistent device naming rules may be required by other software that depends on the data udev collects from the -devices, and should therefore be installed by default with every udev -installation. +devices.