Re: How to install Sawfish in /usr/local?

["Andrea Vettorello" <andrea vettorello gmail com>]

On Dec 21, 2007 3:52 PM, Robert Personen <psyquark gmail com> wrote:
>
> I could have sworn that sawfish has it's own lib-exec directory for
> lisp code and compiled modules.  I am not currently at my computer so
> I can only speculate.  Have you tried some sort of --lib-exec flag?
> It is also possible that sawfish is auto-detecting where librep is and
> installing modules into librep's libexec directory.

Seems i need to dig the autotools documentation then.

> This does raise the question, how would we want sawfish to interact
> with librep?  Should it be a set of modules and lisp code that is
> installed into a librep system (the sawfish executable being a
> "#!/usr/bin/rep" script) or is it a separate program that embeds
> librep?

I don't know what would be the best approach. I can hack rep code with
ease, changing the load path,  without touching the installed version,
but for mangling the C code i thought i needed two separate instances
to keep things sane...


-- 
Andrea