Re: [Evolution-hackers] running my own build

[Larry Siden <lsiden comcast net>]

I agree that it's a bad idea to install in /usr for testing.  But I
couldn't get it to work any other way!  And it takes 1/2 hour on my
machine (Athlon XP) to build from scratch (I'm not sure whether it's
necessary to rebuild from scratch after changing prefix, but I did that
to be on the safe side).  If you or someone could tell me what I need to
do, or point me to some instructions for deploying to a sandbox, I would
be thrilled.  Simply changing the path was not enough.  I also tried
changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Maybe I needed to change LD_LOAD_PATH to
point to the sandbox copies before I built anything.  Willing to accept
whatever help you or others might offer.

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 17:53, JP Rosevear wrote:
> 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