On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:59:20PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly:
 
 
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Martin Vermeer wrote:
 
> >     --with-extra-prefix=/usr/X11R6
> 
> Wouldn't this have the side effect of installing the binary in
> /usr/X11R6/bin/ ? I don't want to "contaminate" my dpkg managed
> directories more than I have to.

In my understanding it only adds a directory to look in for
libraries/include files. But if you compiled successfully you
shouldn't even need this. See Georg Baum's mail.

> > Donate that Commodore 64 to the local orphanage :-)
>  I was mildly offended by that. <Rant about computing theory and economics
> suppressed> Using Moore's LAW that computer power doubles every 18 months,
> a compile now taking 12 minutes would have taken 2 months, 26 days in
> 1984.

The C64 was the Windows of its day. Nice to poke fun at...

- Martin

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