On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:40:56PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote: > Incidentally, compiling and installing from source into your regular > system is generally not a good idea. You should seperate those packages > which you compile and install yourself. Add something like > '--prefix=/extras --sysconfdir=/extras/etc' to the ./configure command.
> That'll likely keep the package management system happy. Use /usr/local rather than a new top (root) level dir. You'll still have problems with Gnome's [whutever]Conf.sh files. Is there a good "legal" way to handle the prefix problem when you have most of Gnome under /usr/ and want to build some extra stuff under /usr/local? <digression1> As someone who started compiling Gnome from source somewhere around the 0.2 or 0.3 tarballs, I can share with everyone that I have been won over by Helix and simply add a line to apt's sources list and off I go, nary a care in the world! <digression2> Otoh, if anyone has successfully built GtkHTML in gnome-perl with a Debian unstable system please let me know? </digression2> </digression1> danke. -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, Rhode Island, USA
