Robert McDonald wrote:
> Robert McDonald wrote:
> <snip> 
>
> Well, to follow up on my post, it looks like LIRC is at least somewhat
> broken. I tried to compile the CVS version of LIRC and setup.sh won't
> run. It is looking for a subdirectory under /lib/modules that Debian put
> somewhere else. (There is a bug report about this.)
>
> Question: If I were to copy the subdirectory to the location that
> setup.sh is expecting, would I break anything? Would it be preferable to
> modify setup.sh to point to the (incorrect) location? I would think that
> LIRC is a deadend package, in the sense that nothing is going to depend
> on it, but maybe I'm wrong about that. I'm relatively new to linux and I
> don't understand what might be ramifications down the line of changing
> something like this.
>
> Thanks for any advice or help in thinking about this the right way.
>
> Bob

When you compile your own software, always install it under /usr/local
and not under /usr.  That is, set prefix when running ./configure to
/usr/local and not /usr  (or use default, becous that is usally
/usr/local).
/usr/bin /usr/lib etc is for Debian, not you. And /usr/local/bin and
/usr/local/lib etc is for you to use.

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