Re: probelm about install

[Paul Davis <pbd Op Net>]

>> I am a student in University of New South Wales, Australia. For my
>> assignment on OO software design. I downloaded GTK+ version 1.2.8 & GLIB.  
>> 
>> when I follow the procedure:
>> 
>> % gzip -cd glib-1.2.8.tar.gz | tar xvf -  # unpack the sources
>>   % cd glib-1.2.8                           # change to the toplevel
>> directory
>>   % ./configure                             # run the `configure' script

use 
      ./configure --prefix=$HOME

and the install will go into $HOME/{lib,etc,bin} and so forth. Then
you can avoid this particular set of problems. Of course, you will
need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH to include the relevant
directories.

Hopefully, its obvious that you could also use

      ./configure --prefix=/some/other/place/you/can/write

as well.	  

--p