From: Greg C. <gch...@sb...> - 2013-07-13 11:49:04
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On 2013-07-13 02:47Z, John Brown wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:19:42 -0700,Kirk Joppy wrote: > ... >> If I want to use an older version of eg. wxWidgets, is there a sane >> way to do this without removing the old version? I put the libs in >> their own directory, a sister directory of my mingw installation (and >> edited specs to get it to work... yes I tested it with simple self >> written libs and it's fine). Is make uninstall the right way to go >> about this? [...] > - Keeping the different versions in different folders is my > preferred option. I wish that you would not edit the specs file to > support that. In my opinion, command line options and environment > variables are better for that purpose. All that is needed > is full understanding of the methods by which a configure script or > other such mechanism determines the location of wxWidgets on > a given system. The package's or wxWidgets' documentation should > tell you. Excellent advice. Here's the specific mechanism wxWidgets provides: http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Wx-Config |