RE: [gnet-dev] Letting gnet-1.1.8 and gnet-2.0.1RPM packages coex ist

[David Helder <dhelder umich edu>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:

> > > Non-superusers should be able to compile it. They should
> > not be able to
> > > install it.  Most packages require root to install because
> > they put files in
> > > /usr and other places which require root access to write.
> >
> > They shouldn't be able to install it in /usr at least.  I
> > install my own
> > version of GNet into ~/local with everything owned by me.
>
> So how does an administrator install the library for all users to make use
> of it?

It should work the default way too.  By default, configure puts it in
/usr/local, but if you can override this by passing --prefix=/my/dir.

David


-- 
David Helder - dhelder umich edu - <http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~dhelder>