Hi,

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 06:04:19PM +0200, Sebastian Rubenstein wrote:
> When I was compiling, making and checkinstalling OpenVPN using 
> openvpn-2.3.7.zip, I encountered an error.
> 
> A friend pointed out to me that I need to first manually create 
> /usr/local/lib/openvpn on my Debian 7 operating system.
> 
> Why did the developer(s) not write code that would create 
> /usr/local/lib/openvpn automatically, thereby making life a bit easier for us 
> users? What is the rationale for doing what they did?

I could argue that if you follow the instructions contained in "INSTALL",
which say you should run "make install", it works nicely.  I have no idea
what "checkinstall" is, and why you think you should run it, so I'm not
*that* much interested to see why it is broken.

> A reply from whomever who wrote the programming code would be much 
> appreciated.

And this is why you complain on the *users* list?

gert
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