Re: [Evolution-hackers] running my own build

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 14:50, Larry Siden wrote:
> You were right, JP.  I had to bit the bullet and install my own build in
> prefix /usr to test my own change.  I had to first do "make distclean
> clean" and start completely from scratch, running autogen.sh with
> --prefix=/usr and so on.  I also made sure that with the exception of
> enabling gtk-doc, my options matches as closely as possible the options
> used by my distro installer (Gentoo Portage).  So now all is good.

Wait, I *never* said this.  It is definitely possible to install
evolution to a prefix.  Prior to using jhbuild I did this all the time. 
Installing over /usr is almost always a bad idea.

-JP
-- 
JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
Ximian, Inc.