Re: FYI: Building Garnome 2.10.0 on Mandrake 9.1

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> not sure if there is anyone with ancient Mandrake 9.1, but I've successfully
> built another release and I'm sending you some info about building if anyone
> is interested.

Thanks for the detailed information. :-)


> I've built many custom packages (created GAR-packages) to be able to compile
> GNOME. These packages were saved in the 'proposed' directory in Garnome tree.
> I've compiled Garnome as root, because I have more users sharing my computer.

FYI, you do NOT need to be root, to accomplish this. Our recommendation
to not build as root stands even in this case.

If you build GARNOME as a user (either an existing one or a dedicated
'build' user), and use a $prefix that is not in your $HOME but globally
accessible, you get what you are after. I do use /opt/gnome-$VERSION for
this very purpose.

In either case (user or root) you need to adjust the $prefix. And if the
GARNOME build is accessible by all users if you build as root, this
should be the same for any user.

...guenther


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