[Refdb-users] stow

[Marc H. <mar...@fr...>]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Matt Price wrote:

> so, decided I needed to install the latest preleease and took the
> plunge with libdbi 0.7.  old libdbd-mysql & libdbd-pgsql files, so now
> I'm kinda screwed with regards to my previous installation of refdb.
> ANyway, there are no debian packages for libdbi-drivers, so I compiled
> them myself; didn't notice any problems.  Then I compiled the latest
> refdb-prerelease, ./configure, make,install; no problems.  But I can't
> run refdbd; when I try the configuration tests suggested in the
> manual, I get the following:

I strongly recommend "stow" to anyone wanting to quickly switch
between different versions of refdb/libdbi/whatever. I use it since
months and it is a real relief. Thanks to a clever and automated use
of symbolic links, it is completely transparent to applications; they
just can't tell they are "stowed". Caveat: I am afraid symbolic links
do not work well with Windows.


The "HOWTO use stow" is so short that I can write it here right away:

To install version123

 cd refdbversion123
 ./configure
 make
 make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/refdbversion123

To enable version123

 cd /usr/local/stow
 stow refdbversion123

To switch to version456

 cd /usr/local/stow
 stow --delete refdbversion123
 stow refdbversion456

and so on... see the attached documentation for more details.