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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:45:27 +0100
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: lang/nimrod doesn't compile anything [SOLVED]
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:32:48 -0500, Matthew Pherigo wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> After some googling that I didn't think to do before,
> I was able to fix it! For the future problem-sufferers,
> here's what's going on. Apparently, does not look for
> its configuration file in anything other than /etc/nimrod.cfg.
> A simple ln -s fixed it.

That surely is an intermediate solution, but far from
perfect or even "accepted". The /etc directory is reserved
for system files (of the OS), and nimrod is an additional
package, so according to "man hier", it should have its
configuration files in /usr/local/etc. Either should an
environmental variable or a command line option be present,
but it will probably be a better idea to write to the
maintainer and ask him to fix this bug.

The symlink you've created is not recorded by any means
of packaging tools, so if you update or remove things,
it will be left, possibly causing trouble later on which
nobody can imagine at the moment.

What you're seeing seems to be a typical "Linuxism". :-)


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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...