flexfax: HylaFAX rpm notes

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----


Hi, Arlington! I finally grabbed your source and popped it on my Linux
box (which I updated to RedHat 5.1 last week). And I have some notes
for you.

1.) The gcc-2.8.x patch was apparently not included in your patches.
	This is important for glibc users and now ecgs users for
	RedHat 5.1, and harms nothing for other people. I suggest
	installing it. (You've got this one, but there's a copy
	in my patches).

2.) The default location for TIFFBIN in /usr/local/bin is not correct
	for RedHat 5.x I therefore recommend a config.local
	file for Linux that sets this to /usr/bin. (See config.linux
	in my patch files).

3.) The "ghostscript" patch I wrote is apparently still needed to find
	where the ghostscript fonts normally live under
	RedHat. Additionally, a location for the AFM is not set (IMHO)
	correctly.  (See config.linux in my patch files).

4.) The default location for the HTML and CGI under RedHat is off.
	(See config.linux in my patch files).

5.) The default location for egetty and vgetty under RedHat is off.
	(See config.linux in my patch files).

6.) I'm delighted that you included the fixhtml patch that I proposed.
	Unfortunately, this is not sufficient to make the web documentation
	work completely for other OS's. Many of the URL's actually
	contain the section numbers, which are just plain wrong for
	Linux. Therefore, it is easiest to simply delete these
	numbers. There is only one place where their lack causes
	confusion, where the HylaFAX man page is referred to in two different
	manual sections, and I think that's a reasonable sacrifice for
	 accessibility. (See my manpage patch).

This whole craziness is making me think: Sam put a *LOT* of work into
that configure script, getting it to set things correctly for
different systems.  But the number of OS's, etc. is growing. Would it
make more sense to have a "conf" directory with configurations for
various OS's, such as a config.linux, config.sunos, config.aix,
etc. for different operating systems? This would permit simplifying
the configure script enormously, and potentially make it much more
robust rather than doing its amazingly sophisticated testing.

			 Nico Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2

iQCVAwUBNb3/wT/+ItycgIJRAQFWXQQAhFfAbkKGp5WwYA4vCQaRqfxkGrvQbweL
L8AsAnkgT/nktQEuSxP0AtKF09SzRJpM3kHXABxq1nTqKr/ode6TeGF7v6y9xZax
oZEJEhd/S2y+emCpQ/H5/mCYrO23Cwkos9LasTEu2gnMT1AcLLzx/9ZapG8RJHMc
NlodDzmZPm8=
=N48H
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----