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author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Fri, 14 Jun 2024 20:29:17 +0000
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New Themyscira Wireless software components, as well as sw components that sit
between FreeCalypso and ThemWi realms like the present package, use configure
scripts - you need to run ./configure before running 'make'.  However, our
configure script is hand-coded, not Autotools/autohell, hence there is no
autoreconf nonsense involved.

Standard --prefix, --exec-prefix and --bindir options are supported for
changing the installation directory for the compiled binaries; the default
prefix is /usr/local, following general FOSS community conventions.

Choice of install location
==========================

If you are a FreeCalypso user, if you are installing the present package for
the purpose of using it together with FC host tools and/or FC SIM tools, and
you like the approach of having all FC components neatly compartmented under
/opt/freecalypso (with /opt/freecalypso/bin added to your PATH), you can put
these SMS utitilies in the same place by running configure like this:

./configure --prefix=/opt/freecalypso

OTOH, if you are someone who does not like and has never liked the scheme of
FC binaries residing in /opt/freecalypso/bin, you can install wherever you like.