Re: Guile

2005-09-08 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen 
   From: Jon Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:50:50 -0500

   Run configure and make as an unprivileged user, and then run make
   install as root, IF necessary.  (which it probably is, but give it a
   shot as unprivileged first.)

this advice can be extended also to "make install", if the installation
directories are not "system directories".  the approach is to create
"~/local" (in my case, this resolves to "/home/ttn/local") and configure
for, install into, and evaluate safely, software under that directory.
"safely" because you need not worry about damaging the system dirs due
to the fact that you can completely avoid being root.

one-time setup (suitable for ~/.bashrc or the like):
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH

building software:
  cd [directory where source is expanded from the tarball]
  ./configure --prefix ~/local [other configure options...]
  make
  make check
  make install
  make installcheck

note: in the one-time setup, there is $HOME instead of ~, but the idea
is the same.  of course there is a downside: software that presumes to
be installed in a system directory.  hopefully, those will be few.

thi


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ETRACK 0.99 available

2005-09-08 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen 
release notes:

  for those administering ETRACK installations, it's probably a good
  idea (though not required) to run "etrack -b upgrade-db" for each
  active configuration.  for example:

  cd ~/local/etc
  for c in *.etrack-config ; do etrack -c $c -b upgrade-db ; done

  next step: overcoming mouse avversion...  ewww!  (see TODO.)

  thi

README excerpt:

  This directory contains ETRACK, a simple package to track
  expenses: query, add, delete, update.  You can use ETRACK
  from Emacs or from the command-line.

NEWS excerpt:

  - 0.99 | 2005-09-08
- frontend changes
  - you can now "mark" entries for batch modification/update
  - C-g no longer loses event-loop context
- db no longer accepts NULL value for date, amount or attcode

cvs tag:

  v-0-99-slow-but-not-low-flux

tarball, anoncvs instructions, html spewage, and other files in dir:

  http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/etrack/


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