[Git][NTPsec/ntpsec][master] Documentation polishing.

[Eric S. Raymond]

Eric S. Raymond pushed to branch master at NTPsec / ntpsec


Commits:
08cc21e0 by Eric S. Raymond at 2016-11-13T08:00:46-05:00
Documentation polishing.

- - - - -


2 changed files:

- INSTALL
- devel/testing.txt


Changes:

=====================================
INSTALL
=====================================
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ By default, `waf install' will install the package's files in
 installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving waf the
 option `--prefix=PATH'.
 
+You should read the section "Path problems with the test tools" in
+devel/testing.txt before setting a non-default prefix.
+
 == Strict compatibility mode ==
 
 There have been a handful of forward-incompatible changes from NTP Classic.


=====================================
devel/testing.txt
=====================================
--- a/devel/testing.txt
+++ b/devel/testing.txt
@@ -34,10 +34,11 @@ possibly the peer directory site-packages) where ${VERSION} is what
 the command "python --version" gives back. This directory should be on
 your Python's sys.path, in which case all will proceed normally.
 
-If it's not, you will get the same ntpq failure to launch.  You may be
-able to patch around this by setting the environment variable
-PYTHONPATH to include the rootspace directory where waf installed the
-library; use "waf -v install" to nail down this location.
+If it's not, you will get the same ntpq failure to launch ./ntpq from
+anywhere *outside* the source tree.  You may be able to patch around
+this by setting the environment variable PYTHONPATH to include the
+rootspace directory where waf installed the library; use "waf -v
+install" to nail down this location.
 
 Be aware that if this sort of problem occurs in an NTPsec instance
 installed from a binary package, it is almost certainly not an NTPsec



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