Fwd: How to install Sawfish in /usr/local?

["Robert Personen" <psyquark gmail com>]

I could have sworn that sawfish has it's own lib-exec directory for
lisp code and compiled modules.  I am not currently at my computer so
I can only speculate.  Have you tried some sort of --lib-exec flag?
It is also possible that sawfish is auto-detecting where librep is and
installing modules into librep's libexec directory.

This does raise the question, how would we want sawfish to interact
with librep?  Should it be a set of modules and lisp code that is
installed into a librep system (the sawfish executable being a
"#!/usr/bin/rep" script) or is it a separate program that embeds
librep?



On Dec 20, 2007 8:10 AM, Andrea Vettorello <andrea vettorello gmail com> wrote:
> I want to install a second Sawfish instance in /usr/local to modify
> and break freely, but even if i specifically declare at configuration
> time the   --prefix and  --exec-prefix variables with my path, there's
> always an error when it tries to overwrite the client.so lib under
> /usr/lib/rep/i486-pc-linux-gnu/sawfish/ (and not installing in
> /usr/local).
>
> As i don't know autotools, am i missing something trivial? Is this the
> expected behaviour or are autoconf scripts broken?
> Should i install librep from source too (in /usr/local) and pass this
> one at config time?
>
>
> --
> Andrea
>