Re: Copying the binaries to another machine?

[Russ Urquhart <russurquhart1 comcast net>]

Hi,

is the --datadir a option when i execute mc? Can you tell me what the 
syntax of it is, i couldn't find anything on it!


Thanks for all your help!


Russ


On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 02:36 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 russurquhart1 comcast net wrote:
>
> > I was able to compile mc 4.6.0 to my mac under OS X! Thanks for
> > everybody's help!
> >
> > My question now is that i have a laptop, running OS X, and i'd like to
> > have mc running on it. Instead of re-compiling everything to that
> > machine, can i copy the binares,etc to this laptop? If so, what path
> > specific files do i need to be aware of? (The location, for me, should
> > be almost the same. My current machine is /User/russur, my laptop is
> > /User/russ.)
>
> You can use the DESTDIR variable to capture all the required files.  In
> the mc source directory, run "make install DESTDIR=/tmp/mc-bin" and all
> the required files will be installed under /tmp/mc-bin.  You can pack 
> them
> and unpack on another machine.
>
> If you are changing the path to the files (e.g. from 
> /User/russur/bin/mc
> to /User/russ/bin/mc), use the "--datadir" option to mc to tell it 
> where
> the supplementary files are.  You may want to use an alias or a shell
> wrapper to set this option every time.
>
> > If not, and i have to re-compile, which version of glib is 
> > recommended?
>
> Better use the already installed version.  If you don't have any, glib
> 1.2.x is easier to install than 2.x.  mc 4.6.0 doesn't use any
> functionality not present in glib 1.2.x.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
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