Re: Maintaing two installs of gnome/gtk+ libs (stable + experimental)

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 04:10 -0500, Archit Baweja wrote:
> My question is, how do most of you hackers out there maintain two
> "installs" of gnome?

The how-it-works information is this:

To compile a module into a different prefix, you configure (or autogen)
with --prefix=/my/new/prefix
To run a GNOME living in a different prefix, you put $PREFIX/bin into
$PATH and $PREFIX/lib into $LD_LIBRARY_PATH (generally before anything
else)
To make compiles pick up the right GNOME, you need to set the above
variables and also put $PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig into $PKG_CONFIG_PATH

So remember to have all 3 of these environment variables set when
compiling and running GNOME from a different prefix. Garnome and jhbuild
manage a lot of this stuff for you.

-- 
Andrew