Re: [Plib-devel] Make Local for PLIB?

[Bert D. <dri...@pl...>]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Fay John F Contr AAC/WMG wrote:

> 	I have been trying to implement PLIB on my upgraded Linux box and
> have run into a bit of a snag.  I would like to make the PLIB libraries as a
> user (rather than as root) and keep them in a local user directory rather
> than installing them.  Would it be possible to add a "local" option to the
> Makefiles so that I could say "make local" and have all the header files and
> library files wind up in a local directory?  We do exactly that under
> Windows right now and I find it quite handy.

I do something like that, using something like this:

#!/bin/sh
[ -d ~/fgfs-install ] || mkdir ~/fgfs-install
inst_root=`cd ~/fgfs-install;pwd`
cd ~/cvs/plib	# where I check out plib
./configure --prefix=$inst_root
gmake install
cd ~/cvs/SimGear
./configure --prefix=$inst_root
gmake install
  ...

(off the top off my head, but you get the idea).

I occasionally even use a trick like this to compare the functionality
of different releases, e.g. I might do

mkdir ~/fgfs-gcc33
inst_root=`cd ~/fgfs-gcc33;pwd`
cd ~/cvs/plib   # where I check out plib
CC=gcc33 CXX=g++33 ./configure --prefix=$inst_root
 [...]

Isn't this what you want to achieve?

Cheers,

				-- bert


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