[Xorp-users] Installed XORP image layout; rtld linker origin

[Bruce Simpson]

Woops, this was intended for xorp-hackers at .
Feedback on dealing with the installation layout would be great, though.

One of the problems with the FreeBSD packaging for XORP, is that the 
whole shooting match gets installed as a set of subdirectories, most of 
which don't fit well with the BSD hier(7) layout. The Debian/Fedora 
packages are affected by this also.

There are a few things in the installed tree which are only really 
relevant to folk actually extending or hacking the code, rather than 
deploying it.

One of these things which got identified was the XRL database. Right 
now, the Router Manager won't run properly unless the *.xrls files exist 
in $DESTDIR/xrl/targets/. This is only used for validating each XRL 
method exists, and is in the XRL target spec, as it's sent to a router 
process. In a production deployment, this isn't really needed.

Ben Greear came up with a patch to eliminate this behaviour, which has 
yet to be integrated.

thanks,
BMS