[rt-users] hardcoding /opt considered harmful

Jesse Vincent jesse at bestpractical.com
Fri Aug 1 13:04:27 EDT 2003


All of those tools have their paths set by the ./configure script in the
distribution. Perhaps you didn't rerun 'make install' after running
configure?


On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:03:50AM -0700, Peter Hessler wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:56:12PM -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> :
> :
> :On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:52:40AM -0700, Peter Hessler wrote:
> :> I installed RT3 on my web server, and now its time to migrate to a new 
> :> server.  When I installed the first install, I used `./configure 
> :> --prefix=/usr/local`.  Which failed miserably.  /opt is hardcoded in 
> :> the vast majority of the files, so I had to do a `mount_null 
> :> /usr/local /opt`, which is bloody annoying.
> :
> :Can you tell us where /opt is hardcoded?
> :
> bin/webmux.pl, bin/rt-crontool, bin/mason_handler.fcgi, 
> bin/rt-mailgate, lib/RT.pm, sbin/rt-setup-database.
> 
> I did a `grep -r "/opt/rt3" /opt/rt3` to find these.
> 
> :
> :> 
> :> Can someone please fix this?
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