> "Paul" == Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jl> Well, at my site we have gcc-2.8.1 _and_ gcc-2.95.2, emacs-19.34
jl> _and_ emacs-20.2, etc.
Paul> Yes, but if you ever try to install them you'll see they install
Paul> as "emacs" and "gcc" by default.
It's been a long time since I ha
Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It wasn't depot -- I forgot all about that one. So there's still one
> more out there.
There are at least five or six of them that I've heard about, and a new
one seems to show up at every LISA. Sometimes two. Plus some of us have
rolled our own.
--
Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[about making it possible to set PACKAGE]
> We could add it, but it doesn't seem that useful in general.
It'd be nice to be able to name ``libmyfancylib'' as
``libmyfancylibdbg'' depending on a --disable-debug option to
configue, for instance, to make it po
Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> tom> There are a few tools like this. GNU stow is one. There is at least
> tom> one other one whose name I forgot.
>
> Paul> I think you're thinking of depot.
>
> It wasn't depot -- I forgot all about that one. So there's still
> one more out there.
Lasgouttes';
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Changing the name of the PACKAGE at configure time
tom> There are a few tools like this. GNU stow is one. There is at least
tom> one other one whose name I forgot.
Paul> I think you're thinking of depot.
It wasn't depot -- I forg
%% Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
tom> There are a few tools like this. GNU stow is one. There is at least
tom> one other one whose name I forgot.
I think you're thinking of depot.
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Paul D. Smith <
tom> There are a few tools like this. GNU stow is one. There is at least
tom> one other one whose name I forgot.
Paul> I think you're thinking of depot.
It wasn't depot -- I forgot all about that one. So there's still one
more out there.
Tom
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 10:45 AM
To: Masterson, David
Cc: 'Jean-Marc Lasgouttes'; Tom Tromey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Changing the name of the PACKAGE at configure time
%% "Masterson, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
md> If you want, I have a Perl too
I'm starting to use "modules" to handle this problem; one installs software
in, say, /opt/pkg/@PACKAGE@/@VERSION@/ and then updates a small file in,
say, /opt/modules/modulfiles/@PACKAGE@/@VERSION@ (this is a file, not a
directory), and then the "modules" script handles setting up the PATH,
MANPAT
%% "Masterson, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
md> If you want, I have a Perl tool that I picked up and enhanced
md> called PKGLINK that could help with this. Basically, with
md> pkglink, you install all packages in there own prefix directory
md> and then use pkglink to symbolically l
> "David" == Masterson, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> If you want, I have a Perl tool that I picked up and enhanced
David> called PKGLINK that could help with this. Basically, with
David> pkglink, you install all packages in there own prefix directory
David> and then use pkglink t
%% Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JMarc> What I mean is that I am ready to provide a more "standard" way
JMarc> of installing several LyX versions concurrently, but does this
JMarc> standard way exist?
Tom> Most
if
someone knows a good place to put it, let me know.
-Original Message-
From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:20 AM
To: Tom Tromey
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Changing the name of the PACKAGE at configure time
>>>>> &q
I do it by something like:
configure --prefix=/packages/lyx/lyx-
make
make install
-Original Message-
From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:01 AM
To: Tom Tromey
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Changing the name of the PACKAGE at
> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> If you look you'll find that gcc and emacs are basically the only
Tom> GNU tools that do this. This feature isn't specified by the GNU
Tom> standards, and wasn't in wide use as I wrote automake. So there
Tom> didn't seem to be much reason
> "JMarc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JMarc> Well, at my site we have gcc-2.8.1 _and_ gcc-2.95.2,
JMarc> emacs-19.34 _and_ emacs-20.2, etc. I thought this was a kind of
JMarc> feature of some GNU tools. Is this way of fdoing things
JMarc> deprecated? A different --pref
> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JMarc> What I mean is that I am ready to provide a more "standard" way
JMarc> of installing several LyX versions concurrently, but does this
JMarc> standard way exist?
Tom> Most people just make a new --prefix.
Well, at my site we have gcc-2
JMarc> Thanks for the tip. Does it mean that what I am trying to do is
JMarc> not a good idea, or that automake is lacking a feature?
I'm not sure it is either of these.
JMarc> What I mean is that I am ready to provide a more "standard" way
JMarc> of installing several LyX versions concurrently,
> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "JMarc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JMarc> With autoconf, since I want to use the autogenerated makefile
JMarc> rules, I figured out that setting PACKAGE to the right value at
JMarc> configure time should work. Un
> "JMarc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JMarc> With autoconf, since I want to use the autogenerated makefile
JMarc> rules, I figured out that setting PACKAGE to the right value at
JMarc> configure time should work. Unfortunately, I cannot get the
JMarc> name of the insta
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