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Re: nits to please a kernel hacker
Hi -
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:33:03PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> [...]
> The reason why I keep pushing the perl filtering scheme is that it
> might expand the number of people who can help out with error message
> quality. Not everyone is comfortable hacking C++.... [...]
Heh. At some point we'll have gettext-internationalized messages, so
perhaps we can have c++-phobes submit english-to-english
translations. :-)
> > /usr/local is simply the FSF-mandated autoconf default. Just like any
> > other such tool, one can and generally should designate an arbitrary
> > installation directory with --prefix=DIR.
>
> I suspect most users will probably install it in either /usr/local or
> /usr/bin [...]
I added a blurb to README to provide more guidance in this matter.
- FChE