X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=0a34e77df2a272cbd3a4d75e8ed00fb8d8647830;hp=aeabcb9dfcdea69105413bb5c83e9e4a8d79e19b;hb=d0066c7416dbdc1fa837a6418ee6d4609486ec31;hpb=6297c2d4e48068685ac810d631291daf75a95ec7 diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index aeabcb9df..0a34e77df 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,71 +1,44 @@ -Usual options for udev installed in the root filesystem are: - ./configure \ +The options used usually look like: + %configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ - --sbindir=/sbin \ + --bindir=/usr/bin \ --libdir=/usr/lib64 \ - --with-rootlibdir=/lib64 \ - --libexecdir=/lib/udev \ + --libexecdir=/usr/lib \ + --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system \ --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 on the running system. - --with-selinux - Link against SELinux libraries to set the expected context - for created files. - --disable-rule_generator - Disable persistent network, cdrom naming support. - --disable-hwdb - Disable hardware database support - --disable-udev_acl - Disable local user acl permissions support. - --disable-gudev - Disable Gobject libudev support. - --disable-introspection - Disable Gobject introspection support. - --disable-keymap - Disable keymap fixup support. - --enable-floppy - Enable legacy floppy support. - --enable-edd - Enable disk edd support. - -The options used in a RPM spec file usually look like: +The options used in a RPM spec file look like: %configure \ --prefix=%{_prefix} \ --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} \ - --sbindir=/sbin \ + --bindir=%{_bindir} \ --libdir=%{_libdir} \ - --with-rootlibdir=/%{_lib} \ - --libexecdir=/lib/udev \ + --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 + +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 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 may be required by other software that depends on the data udev collects from the devices.