[FGS] Base updates

[Tyler Mitchell]

> I have gotten into the practice of writing a "fgs_configure" and 
"fgs_install"
> script for each package I build and install.  At their simpliest the
> fgs_configure is just "configure --prefix=/home/fgs/fgs-pkgs/base" and 
the
> install one is "make install", but it gives a place to do required hacks 
for
> some packages.  For the ODBC client things are quite special since I 
only
> install the client libraries (and include files).

Good tips, I've got Python23 compiled. 

Any suggestion for folder structure for additional packages, i.e. python? 
Should we create a couple trees (base, app, support?) with subfolders for 
each program, i.e. app/openev, app/mapserver, support/python, support/gtk. 
 I'm wondering where we should toss python into /home/fgs..

> shell account to "chmod g+r ~/." so that others can browse into your
> directories to find out how you do stuff.

Done.