Re: Gnome on Solaris 8 w/depot

[Bryan Whitehead <driver rccacm org>]

Thanks! I was looking for a solution as easy as this...

Make we wonder why I didn't think of it myself.... to many things, so
little time.

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

> On Wednesday, October 25, 2000 15:41 -0700, Bryan Whitehead 
> <driver rccacm org> wrote:
> +-----
> | The way depot works is this: when you build a package you change the
> | prefix.
> |
> | So for gnome-libs (or any package) I'd do this:
> | /configure --prefix=/usr/depot/sol8/gnome-libs/1.2.2
> +--->8
> 
> You don't want to do that; you're telling GNOME to run out of the depot 
> tree, that's where it will look for files, and with multiple packages each 
> one will look in its own depot collection for files from any packages.
> 
> What you want to do is:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> make
> make install prefix=/usr/depot/sol8/gnome-libs/1.2.2 # for example
> 
> This way, packages look for files under /usr/local, but are installed into 
> depot collections.  (You probably want a depot.conf along the lines of
> 
> 	~delete usr
> 	usr/local		/
> 
> in the collection directory as well.)
> 
> 

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