Re: [Refdb-users] stow

[Matt P. <mat...@ut...>]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:21:31AM +0100, Marc Herbert wrote:
> 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.

jeez, his sounds great.  A bit late for my current situation I think
(b/c I was using debian packaging for my earlier installation of
libdbi etc...) but I will check ito ut!

matt