Re: [orca-list] Pointers on starting orca development contributions?

["Dan Miner" <dminer84 yahoo com>]

I do understand the mechanics of configuring a autoconf package but that is
on the presumption of making installation steps.  I am talking about working
in the source tree itself where install steps are rarely taken until the end
when testing that piece of the process of making changes.  Making a change,
install and restart is a painful cycle.

I'm looking for something like:

export ORCA_HOME=$source/src/orca
cd $ORCA_HOME

# initial setup
./configure blah
make

# set up environment
export SOME_PYTHON_PATH_VAR=...

./orca --replace &

# test

# make changes to some code

./orca --replace &

# cycle until happy


This way when I crater orca with some change, my Desktop orca is safe and
easy to recovery start again.

        Dan


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list <orca-list-bounces gnome org> On Behalf Of Kyle via
orca-list
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2020 2:15 PM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Pointers on starting orca development
contributions?

Jason White aliandika:
> You can set --prefix=directory-name when you run ./configure. Then, 
> "make install" will install Orca into the directory you specify (e.g., 
> somewhere under $HOME)

Better may be to just go with the default, which is /usr/local. Distros are
not supposed to ship packages in /usr/local, as it is supposed to be the
home for software locally built from source. It also has the clear advantage
of being ahead of /usr in most path listings, so your built copy of Orca
will naturally override your installed copy unless you specify /usr/bin/orca
or until you uninstall orca from /usr/local. This is what I have done here
when I needed a locally built git tree, and it has worked perfectly here so
far.

$ which orca
/usr/local/bin/orca

Hope it helps.
~Kyle
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