Linux Installation issues 2009-02-15 source

[joevenzon]

The issue with scons install not copying over all files was issue 53 and is closed:
http://code.google.com/p/vdrift/issues/detail?id=53

The other error messages are OK, but should probably be cleaned up before the next release.

upon typing 'vdrift' into the terminal I get a message its not found. Is it possible to get the installer to check $PATH and install symlink to one of the directories there?

Yeah, that could be done... do other linux programs do this? I don't want to surprise anyone.

once I sorted that out vdrift couldnt find the data folder, so I had to move the vdrift binary from the bin folder it automatically installed to into the base vdrift directory. Ie the bin installed to /usr/share/games/vdrift/bin/vdrift and the data installed to /usr/share/games/vdrift/data
I had to move vdrift to /usr/share/games/vdrift/ before it would find the data directory (I'm thinking this is just a simple path problem?

I'm not sure why you'd need to move the vdrift binary; it checks for a VDRIFT_DATA_DIRECTORY environment variable first, then looks for a relative "data" directory, then looks for whatever the compiled prefix is (by default I think it's /usr/share/games/vdrift/data)... regardless of where the binary is. I will add more verbosity to the next release so this is easier to troubleshoot.