Re: Building and running gIDE

[Dirk Vangestel <dirk_vangestel yahoo com>]

--- JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-08-22 at 05:19, Dirk Vangestel wrote:
> > 
> > --- Ed Snible <esnible acm org> wrote:
> > > $ cd xml-i18n-tools
> > > $ sh autogen.sh
> > > # make install
> > > 
> > > (The aclocal dir (on my machine, Redhat 7.1 +
> Ximian
> > > red carpet) is 
> > > /usr/share/aclocal.  The xml-i18n-tools builds
> to 
> > > /usr/local/share/aclocal.  This needs to be
> > > specified when compiling gIDE.)
> > 
> > Hi Ed,
> > 
> > Next time, consider using './autogen.sh
> --prefix=/usr'
> > to solve all those problems. It will then install
> > everything cleanly (?) in /usr instead of
> /usr/local.
> 
> eek!  This is a bad thing IMHO.  /usr/local or an
> /opt/gnome is much
> better when you clean things up and you are much
> less likely to
> overwrite RPMs and such.

Blame Red Hat. They install everything in /usr...
I for one am not interested to have 2 copies of
everything installed. I've had way too many problems
with that. YMMV.

Dirk


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