X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=0a34e77df2a272cbd3a4d75e8ed00fb8d8647830;hp=9e24144728e4d11b0a50f998880cc8937d922319;hb=df4554c333aec1a4bc2c3335aef6e92f2c13bfcd;hpb=88a7923e91fddec8e4f4c9115168ede5d239d8ee diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 9e2414472..0a34e77df 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,61 +1,44 @@ -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: +The options used usually look like: + %configure \ + --prefix=/usr \ + --sysconfdir=/etc \ + --bindir=/usr/bin \ + --libdir=/usr/lib64 \ + --libexecdir=/usr/lib \ + --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system \ --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. - --enable-extras - Build extras with larger external dependencies like glib, - libacl, libusb, ... +The options used in a RPM spec file look like: + %configure \ + --prefix=%{_prefix} \ + --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} \ + --bindir=%{_bindir} \ + --libdir=%{_libdir} \ + --libexecdir=%{_prefix}/lib \ + --with-systemdsystemunitdir=%{_prefix}/lib/systemd/system \ + --with-selinux + +The options to install udev in the rootfs instead of /usr, +and udevadm in /sbin: + --prefix=%{_prefix} \ + --with-rootprefix= \ + --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} \ + --bindir=/sbin \ + --libdir=%{_libdir} \ + --with-rootlibdir=/lib64 \ + --libexecdir=/lib \ + --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system \ + --with-selinux -The options used in a RPM spec file usually look like: - --prefix=%{_prefix} - --exec-prefix= - --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} - --with-libdir-name=%{_lib} - --with-selinux - --enable-extras +Some tools expect udevadm in 'sbin'. A symlink to udevadm in 'bin' +needs to be manually created if needed. The defined location for scripts and binaries which are called -from rules is /lib/udev/ on all systems and architectures. Any +from rules is (/usr)/lib/udev/ on all systems and architectures. Any other location will break other packages, who rightfully expect -the /lib/udev/ directory, to install their rule helper and udev +the (/usr)/lib/udev/ directory, to install their rule helper and udev rule files. -It is recommended 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.