X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=943a8a467a32790118d46042c1b28b260b96074e;hp=12678a29bf9d4bba1485c724cfad657f28e438f5;hb=e3c14a7ff3931e4c09711966e3a82fd8f98e568a;hpb=514b8d62123e3d63f2b935aa1d58e5c411f3f603 diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 12678a29b..943a8a467 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,46 +1,22 @@ Usual options for udev installed in the root filesystem are: - ./configure - --prefix=/usr - --exec-prefix= - --sysconfdir=/etc -For 64bit multilib-installations also: - --with-libdir-name=lib64 -For SELinux support: + ./configure \ + --prefix=/usr \ + --sysconfdir=/etc \ + --sbindir=/sbin \ + --libdir=/usr/lib64 \ + --with-rootlibdir=/lib64 \ + --libexecdir=/lib/udev \ --with-selinux -All options: - --prefix= - Prefix for man pages, include files. - --exec-prefix= - Prefix for libs, binaries, usually the root filesystem. - --with-udev-prefix= - Prefix for internal udev path names, like /dev/, /lib/udev/. - Only useful for testing and development installations. The - value is copied from exec-prefix, if not specified otherwise. - --sysconfdir= - Usually /etc. - --with-libdir-name= - Directory name for libraries. This is not a path name. - --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 extras with larger external dependencies - like glib, libacl, libusb, ... - The options used in a RPM spec file usually look like: - --prefix=%{_prefix} - --exec-prefix= - --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} - --with-libdir-name=%{_lib} - --with-selinux + %configure \ + --prefix=%{_prefix} \ + --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} \ + --sbindir=/sbin \ + --libdir=%{_libdir} \ + --with-rootlibdir=/%{_lib} \ + --libexecdir=/lib/udev \ + --with-selinux The defined location for scripts and binaries which are called from rules is /lib/udev/ on all systems and architectures. Any @@ -48,13 +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.