Re: put GNOME in special directories, /usr pollution

[Havoc Pennington <rhp zirx pair com>]

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, dayear wrote:
> 
> I just tried to compile cvs Gnome on a clean Debian 2.1 system, and I
> had autoconf errors without making those ugly links. On this system, I
> installed automake, autoconfig, and libtool in /usr/local by using
> tar.gz since it is easier to keep up with the latest. Gnome is in

BTW the latest Debian packages in unstable are new enough to compile
Gnome...

> /opt/gnome and added /opt/gnome/lib to system setting. I also have
> export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal" in my .bashrc and use
> --prefix=/opt/gnome. I would think this would be enough, but without
> those links, autogen.sh fails. Does anyone know why this is so?
> 

It depends on the error message. 

Rule one of asking for help: post exact error message. :-)

Havoc