Re: newbie question: compiling source packages

[Dan <dan kortschak adelaide edu au>]

The series of commands (as root) were

./configure --prefix=/usr    (and let everything else figure itself out from
there, no editing)
make
make install

I'll try again with the log output and see what's going on.

thanks
Dan

Eric Christopher wrote:
> 
> Dan Kortschak wrote:
> >
> > I'm sorry if this is covered elsewhere. I have just tried to upgrade
> > gnome-print and gnumeric to 0.18 and 0.52 repectively from the source
> > packages. I followed the instructions in the INSTALL file using a
> > $prefix of /usr for "./configure", then "make", then "make install", but
> > I got no binaries in /usr/bin for gnumeric (I can't tell if gnome print
> > went in properly, though some files definately did).
> 
> How exactly did you configure?  Did you just use ./configure and then
> edit the files, or did you do something like:
>         ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
> 
> Another suggestion is to capture the output of the make install (you
> were root weren't you?) like this:
> 
>         make install >& install.log
> 
> And then look in there and find where it put the binaries.
> 
> -eric