[Lxde-list] working with libfm and pcmanfm

[Christopher H. <ch...@ba...>]

How do you recommend setting up libfm on a computer to work with 
pcmanfm? I can compile libfm just fine, but I don't want to install it 
outside of the home directory...since it's a build from git. Problem is 
that I can't configure pcmanfm to locate libfm and if I prefix the libfm 
install with /home/chris/libfminstall it refuses to install.
This is my configure line:

./configure --prefix=/home/chris/Projects/libfminstall/usr/local 
--sysconfdir=/etc

It fails when trying to create a directory in the root filesystem.

test -z "/etc/xdg/libfm" || /bin/mkdir -p "/etc/xdg/libfm"
/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/etc/xdg/libfm': Permission denied

How do you developers deal with this?
Thanks,
Chris.