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

["Robert Personen" <psyquark gmail com>]

On Dec 22, 2007 6:15 AM, Andrea Vettorello <andrea vettorello gmail com> wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2007 3:52 PM, Robert Personen <psyquark gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Seems i need to dig the autotools documentation then.

Found it.  --with-rep-prefix=

You will need seperate installs of rep.  That should at least install
the sawfish c libs into a separate instance of librep.  That configure
flag also sets up the cflags, libs and execdir of rep for sawfish.  I
would hazard to guess that sawfish currently links against the librep
libraries and loads the lisp system itself.
>
> > 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?
>
> I don't know what would be the best approach. I can hack rep code with
> ease, changing the load path,  without touching the installed version,
> but for mangling the C code i thought i needed two separate instances
> to keep things sane...
>

The ideal situation would be the "sawfish is just a lisp script"
approach but for this code base we will have to stick to librep being
embeded.  Maybe in a future revision....

>
> --
> Andrea
>


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