Rubidium wrote:

Contrary to what is suggested in the ticket you linked to, /usr/local/bin is not for local game binaries, just for local non-game binaries, according to the specification: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html# USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY (at least since FHS 2.0 which was released in 1997). As a result, the standard specifies that OpenTTD's binary should be, at least by default, installed in /usr/local/games and not /usr/local/bin.

You can make OpenTTD install into /usr/local/bin by passing --binary-dir=bin to ./configure, i.e. './configure --binary-dir=bin'. Then 'make install' installs the binary in /usr/local/bin.

If this happens with a package from your distribution, then the package maintainer should try to convince the distribution to conform to the FHS and add /usr/local/games and if that fails just use './configure --binary-dir=bin' instead of just './configure'.

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asl97 wrote:

it doesn't say non-game binaries, just binaries, most other game does install into /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/games is rarely used nowadays.

but i just wanted you to know that some distro doesn't add /usr/local/games into the PATH and would cause minor inconveniences to end-user since they would have to manually (soft)link it into /usr/local/bin (or other directory in the PATH) or know about the `--binary-dir` option.

in any case, i just make an bug report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178293 , i highly doubt they would add it to the PATH though.

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krinn wrote:

Distro using systemd aren't fhs compliant (systemd enforce breaking the fhs itself by issuing warning when /sbin and /usr/sbin aren't symlink), so it is no surprise redhat is not.
systemd also enforce that by targetting critical service from /usr/sbin path (look at any service file for a boot critical service and watch /usr/sbin been use in its ExecStart part instead of /sbin).

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Alberth closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't fix

Install issues on random systems are out of scope for the OpenTTD project. You can set the install path while building the binary, if a package builder does not do that, there is little we can do.

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