Re: [orca-list] Preparing orca installation for patch testing

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Hermann:

You need to use the -u option each time you start Orca.  Adding it as a 
configure option sounds interesting and I'd welcome a patch to do this.

Will

On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Hermann wrote:

> Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM> writes:
>
> > > Note: There's one thing I cannot explain by heart. You're using the
> > > same
> > > config setting stored in ~/.orca. I think there is a way to avoid 
> > > this,
> > > either by specifying a different path in ./autogen.sh, or perhaps
> > > there's a startup parameter by Orca.
> >
> > From "orca --help":
> >
> >     -u, --user-prefs-dir=dirname  Use alternate directory for user
> > preferences
> Does this persist, or do we have to repeat it with every startup
> command?
> To Jason:
> Does:
> ./autogen.sh --help |less
> provide a parameter related to the location of the user's directory?
> Hermann