[2183] in Release_7.7_team
Need a ruling on silly Andrew config.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Mar 30 20:43:42 2000
Message-ID: <Ust0=_QGgE6e0Wdrk0@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:43:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
So everywhere on Athena, we standardized on putting the Andrew pointer
in /usr/andrew. That's what the CMU folks said was gonna be the
standard.
Then when they build Andrew 7.5 for Linux, they broke their own rule.
If you don't put andrew in /usr/local/andrew, the built-in library paths
are wrong and it wont find any dynamic libraries. One could work around
this by setting an LD_LIBRARY_PATH (is that what it's called under
Linux?) for everyone.
The default athena dot files set a bin directory of /usr/andrew.
I think that for things to work with the minimum disruption to people
and existing Athena default login configs we need to have /usr/andrew
and /usr/local/andrew pointing at the same place: The andrew locker.
When we get rid of EZ and replace it with Star Office or Applix or
GNOMEsomething we can purge this brain damage.
What should we do now?
-wdc
