X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=7341272e68b76762a1a5c15623d382d052413c3f;hp=12678a29bf9d4bba1485c724cfad657f28e438f5;hb=cbfad6af1fdc73c6f3c6b001047ff4a86c8a6efd;hpb=514b8d62123e3d63f2b935aa1d58e5c411f3f603 diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 12678a29b..7341272e6 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,26 +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. + Usually /usr, prefix for man pages, include files. --sysconfdir= Usually /etc. - --with-libdir-name= - Directory name for libraries. This is not a path name. + --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. @@ -29,18 +25,36 @@ All options: 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 + 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, ... + --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. + --enable-action_modeswitch + Enable action modeswitch support. 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 +62,12 @@ 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.