Re: GNOME installation directory

[Andreas Jellinghaus <aj dungeon inka de>]

> Yes, use the --prefix option to configure or autogen.sh. If you did that,
> the problem is likely something else (my Gnome works in ~/local and
> /usr/local/pkgs/gnome, for example). Send more info - which app won't run,
> what it does instead of running, any error messages. 

not all programs work fine with --prefix=/opt/gnome (the ACLOCAL_FLAG is
soemtimes ignored). 

newest problem case : gnome-pilot/pilot-link : after installing pilot-link in
/opt/gnome, gnome-pilot doesn't compile out of the box : it doesn't find the
libararies in /opt/gnome/libs (pisock).

andreas