[rt-users] hardcoding /opt considered harmful

[Steve Wampler]

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 someone please fix this?

Hmmm, I did nearly this with 3.0.3 and had no problems.

The only difference is I used:

   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/rt ...

to put all the installed files under a single root directory.

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