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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  34 <PRE>Just a note to let you know I've got the patch--thanks.  I'll take a look
  35 at it when I have a chance.
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  37   --Andrew Church
  38     <A HREF="http://lists.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">achurch at achurch.org</A>
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  41 &gt;<i>On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 19:54 +0000, Andrew Church wrote:
  42 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> As far as FHS compliance goes, can you make any specific suggestions?
  43 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> I'm not sure how much I can do, since Services' design requires all data
  44 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> under a common hierarchy, and at this point it's a bit late to go back and
  45 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> change that so it works reliably with scattered files.  It may suffice in
  46 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> at least some cases to use absolute rather than relative paths, though, so
  47 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> let me know what changes you'd recommend and I'll see how feasable they
  48 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> are.
  49 </I>&gt;<i>
  50 </I>&gt;<i>Attached is a patch I'm currently using in the package - I've not
  51 </I>&gt;<i>finished testing it, but the idea is that things like modules, config
  52 </I>&gt;<i>files, language files and the helpfiles are opened only in one place, so
  53 </I>&gt;<i>are easy to relocate. Anything else can be fixed with absolute paths in
  54 </I>&gt;<i>the config files.
  55 </I>&gt;<i>
  56 </I>&gt;<i>The build system gets patched to add some configuration options to
  57 </I>&gt;<i>support this - it also implements the $(DESTDIR) prefix for the install
  58 </I>&gt;<i>target.
  59 </I>&gt;<i>
  60 </I>&gt;<i>(I'm happy to hand over whatever little copyright is in this patch.)
  61 </I>&gt;<i>
  62 </I>&gt;<i>--
  63 </I>&gt;<i>Tim Retout &lt;<A HREF="http://lists.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">tim at retout.co.uk</A>&gt;
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